send email from command line

[Eric Maquiling]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 05:55:14AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>    Alas Hardy has Exim and your detailed help does not work. I wonder 
>why people decide to fix sendmail and then just make a confused MESS 
>more confusing!

The difference lies in the mta and the mua.  The mua sends receives mail and as
a sysadmin, its a good idea to know it.
What errors are you getting?  Do you need to authenticate to your smtp?  Does
it actually allow relaying?  Actually, that's the first question that should be
asked.  
HTH>
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