send mail from shell on 8.04 server (how to?)

[Rashkae]

Nik N wrote:
>> Cybe R. Wizard <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>
>> "Mail," is what you want.
>> <man mail>
> 
> Thanks, I thought so too, but there seems to be no way to specify
> outgoing SMTP server to "mail". Without it, the sending silently
> fails.
> 
> Nik
> 

You'll need to install a 'sendmail' binary.  Whether that is sendmail
itself, or Postfix, or one of the other lightweight alternatives.  It
need not run as a service, since most native unix mail applications will
will pipe the e-mail to the binary, rather than use smtp.