Re: [newbie] email from command prompt
On Fri, 01 Mar 2002, Michael wrote: %_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! http://wwwlinuxdocorg/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO-3html#ss31 explains this, To be honest , you need to setup mutt or pine I'll look into it a little more -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] email from command prompt
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] email from command prompt
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 I need to be able to email directly to the ISP as I am not running a mail server on my linux box at this time. Does anyone know of a mail program that I might use to do this? I think I once saw the 'mail' command used to send mail to a mail store on the same computer, but I don't know if mail supports sending SMTP messages to a remote mail server. echo this is the message | mail -s this is the subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] email from command prompt
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] email from command prompt
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 mycommand | mail -s results of mycommand [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] email from command prompt
Gerald Waugh wrote: mycommand | mail -s results of mycommand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gerald, I have added several of your suggestions to http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/EmailSendingFromTheCommandLine and added your name as a contributor. I you have any comments, please advise. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
