I am trying to understand what you want. This isn't especially clear to me as another newbie but i guess the question you want answered is can "mail" talk direct to a SMTP server out of your box. I am probably way out in left feild as i understand that on a standard setup this is the domain of postfix (or postfix pretending it is "sendmail"). The question still remains though... can mail address a SMTP server on the net directly. In my situation i get my mail as POP3 (with fetchmail) and send it as SMTP to my ISP (preconfigured using sendmail).
I agree Gerald's reply doesn't address my understanding of this question either. More info please Gerald! Meanwhile Jim, i am off to reread man mail, man mailaddr, man sendmail, all the *.cf files in /etc/postfix/, and scan the HOWTO's. I am interested in any replies you get as well. My interest stems from looking at writing my mail offline (while my partner is on the phone, which exceeds the time i am usuallly online). I want to post it to the bowels of my box and have it post on from there from something in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.local file. Michael Jim Dawson wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:28, Gerald Waugh wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Jim Dawson wrote: > > > >%_If this message seems familliar, forgive me. I sent out a similar message >last week but I didn't see it or any replies to it on the list... > > > > > > I need to send an email message from the command line, either piping the output >of a command into a mail program or redirectig the text into it, e.g.: > > > > > > mycommand | mailprog -user [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject "results of mycommand" > > > > > > or: > > > > > > mailprog -user [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject "text" <textfile.txt > > > > > > > cat testfile.txt | mail -s "text" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Gerald Waugh > > > > ---- > > > > Can someone tell me how I can configure the 'mail' command to > communicate with my ISP's mail server? The man page doesn't seem to give > any clue as as to how to do this. > -- "The question is rather: if we ever succeed in making a mind 'of nuts and bolts', how will we know we have succeeded? -- Fergal Toomey "It will tell us." -- Barry Kort
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