send email from command line

[Neil Cherry]

Mark Haney wrote:
> mierda tuti wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Well I don't explain to well.
>>
>> I have kubuntu 8,04 and I would like to send email for example to
>> mierdatuti at gmail.com., because I don't know too much about how configure it,
>> I 've saw that I have to configure a MTA (like postfix or sendmail) with
>> relay host. My relay host is gmail. Could you say me how to configure it?
>>
>> Many  thanks and sorry for my english!
> 
> 
> I hate continuing to be the one to ask to not top post.  I give up.
> 
> Why would you need gmail to be the relay?  If you have kubuntu on your 
> system have it use sendmail locally.  If you have an ISP, use their mail 
> server.  I don't understand the point of going through all this just to 
> send mail to gmail.

I have an answer to this, because the ISP in incompetent with it's
handling of email (see my rant -
http://www.linuxha.com/other/sendmail/rant.html ).

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