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

[Nik N]

On 10/14/09, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> ...Nik N wrote:
>> How do I send an e-mail message from shell? ...
>
> I can't help you directly, but I am able to send email with only a telnet
> client:
>
> telnet mail.myisp.com 25
...
> Google for "telnet send email" for more details.
> If you could script this in some way, then you would essentially have
> written your very own very basic MTA.

This was very helpful indeed, thank you kindly!
Nik