send email from command line

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Wed Sep 24 20:04:23 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
>
>   
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>     
>>> Ken McLennan wrote:
>>> SNIP
>>>       
> I haven't - I wish _more_ ISPs would block insecure mail - but they have to
> be prepared to prove that their own mail servers are secure.  Why more ISPs
> aren't using SPF I don't understand, and my own ISP doesn't understand the
> concept of TLS and wanted to charge me more to use it.  
>   
    I read the man exim and found that exim -bl sets up exim as an smtp 
demon. So I did that and now I get this:

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  k5di at zianet.com
    Mailing to remote domains not supported

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <karl at karl-hardy>
Received: from karl by karl-hardy with local (Exim 4.69)
    (envelope-from <karl at karl-hardy>)
    id 1KiaOf-0004Wc-F3
    for k5di at zianet.com; Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:51:37 -0600
To: <k5di at zianet.com>
Subject: test
X-Mailer: mail (GNU Mailutils 1.1)
Message-Id: <E1KiaOf-0004Wc-F3 at karl-hardy>
From: "Karl F. Larsen" <karl at karl-hardy>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:51:37 -0600

This is a test
&

    Notice it says it can't forward to remote domains. Anyone know how 
to fix this in Exim? :-)

I bet it's not simple.

Karl

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