A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Until I get out-bound messages going through nmh properly, I have found a possible stop-gap measure to use. The old mail application or mailx if one has heirloom-mail does work but I have a question about piping a message to it. It looks from documentation that mail can

Re: A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:40:27PM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote: The old mail application or mailx if one has heirloom-mail does work but I have a question about piping a message to it. It looks from documentation that mail can read headers such as: From: martin McCormick

Re: A Question about the Application Called mail or mailx

2015-07-22 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: mail -t needs to be followed by an address, not a message body. Makes sense. Thanks. If you want to send a full message which has all needed headers, trust the sendmail command which is shipped by anything which can supply the MTA package role. exim, sendmail,