send email from command line

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Sep 24 01:22:33 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:

> Now there must be a way to set up mail so if you use a good email
> address like
> 
> mail k5di at zianet.com
> 
> it should send that, but I think it is trying to get sendmail to send it
> and mine is not set up. There should be a way to set the SMTP to be the
> one we pay for. 

No, there shouldn't.  Mail was written by people who believe that mail
clients _shouldn't_ speak SMTP, and it _must_ have a sendmail-compatible
program to actually deliver the mail.
> 

-- 
derek





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