Enabling mail program

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Tue Sep 1 16:05:00 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:55:59AM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>    I installed mailutils to enable command line email for scripts on my
>    system. As a test, I ran
> 
>    mail -s "Test Message" michael at weblore.com < /dev/null
> 
>    It seemed to run without error, but I never received the test message.
>    Obviously, I need to do something else to get the mail program working.
>    Would someone be so kind as to let me in on the magic that I'm missing?
> 
By redirecting from /dev/null you sent yourself an empty message so it
doesn't seem to me to be very surprising that you received nothing.
Try redirecting from a text file of some sort.

-- 
Chris Green





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