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[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 29 June 2013 22:51:54 Charles Bell did opine:

> On 06/29/2013 05:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 June 2013 17:13:31 Gene Heskett did opine:
> > 
> > Ping??
> > 
> >> Hello all;
> >> 
> >> I'm on 10.04.4 LTS yet, and have a 'mail' problem, as it is either
> >> sending to ~/dead.letter or straight into a /dev/null.  It did work a
> >> year ago, and I have no clue when it stopped working because I had
> >> temporarily stopped using the backup app, amanda, that used it.
> >> 
> >> Googling for mail's mailing list only gets me 20 some pages of people
> >> trying to sell a mailng list, or how to setup mailman to run a list.
> >> 
> >> So, does anyone know where I can join the "mail" mailing list?
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> Cheers, Gene
> > 
> > Well, since there seems not to be anyone knowledgeable about
> > "mail-Mail- mailx (they are all the same ack the man page) and my
> > install doesn't seem to even give me the responses that the manpage
> > talks about, (-d does nothing, and -v for verbose has to be
> > threatened to get any kind of a message out of it, none of which is
> > the least bit useful for debugging.
> > 
> > So now I am asking what I can install that replaces mail with a
> > transparent, works like mail is supposed to, equivalent?  All I really
> > need is to restore the ability of a process, running as any user, to
> > send me a completion status msg.  Is the not such a beast?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
> Have you tried "sendmail".  You can install it using Apt-Get and then
> read the manpages on its use.  If it is not what you want, you can
> remove it.
> Good luck!
> 
> Charles Bell

I've considered it, but the last time I had to deal with sendmail.cf, I 
wound up taking an oath to never again touch it.  But like Obummer, I guess 
oaths are performed to be broken.

Cheers, Gene
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