Assuming you can install new packages, the mail command comes in the package bsd-mailx. Otherwise, you can try using the Postfix sendmail command. You'll probably have to read the man page as the flags are different from mail.
James -----Original Message----- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam....@cyberspaceroad.com] Sent: January 18, 2010 8:32 AM To: debian-user Subject: question about sending mail and postfix This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I somehow failed to pick up. I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else. I set this up a few years back with postfix and now trying to recreate this setup, I am running into the problem that the mail command isn't installed. It obviously doesn't come with postfix and there appears to be a huge choice of packages that I could choose from in the debian repositories, but isn't there a default? My guess is that my hosting service installed such a stripped-down version of lenny that I didn't get it. Any enlightenment gratefully received, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
