From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Cristian CHIRILOV" Subject: Re: Configuring mail\mailx to use an external smtp server. Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 18:33:21 +0200 Message-ID: <002c01c50ec5$11dc3ec0$140319ac@atmos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii"; reply-type="original" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hello, I don't know for sure if it's possible to configure mail/mailx to use an external SMTP server. You can use nail instead. ls -all /usr/bin/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 1 1996 /usr/bin/mail -> nail* man nail smtp Normally, nail invokes sendmail(8) directly to transfer messages. If the smtp variable is set, a SMTP connection to the server specified by the value of this variable is used instead. If the SMTP server does not use the stan-dard port, a value of server:port can be given, with port as a name or as a number. cat ~/.mailrc set smtp=mail.example.com bye. From: "Adam" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:21 AM Subject: Configuring mail\mailx to use an external smtp server. > > I'm trying to configure either mail or mailx to use an external smtp > server > (using sendmail locally is not an option). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs