best/easiest commandline email program for mass-email

Patton Echols p.echols at comcast.net
Fri Jan 29 08:28:14 UTC 2010


On 01/28/2010 02:23 PM, Alex Janssen wrote:
> I can't figure out how to get mailutils mail to use my ISP's smtp mail 
> server, yet.
> I type "mail me at mydomain.com", enter the subject and message body 
> followed by "." on a blank line.  The message goes somewhere, but where 
> I don't know.
>
> I see I need to do more homework, but I'm certainly open to suggestions.
>   
Blind leading the blind here, but I found this link:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/syntax-using-nail-mailx-for-smtp-without-postfix-or-sendmail-560929/

or:
http://tinyurl.com/yfwuyuk

Looks like exactly what you want to do.

I am interested in hearing your results.  I need to do something similar 
and didn't want to have to configure postfix, sendmail or some other 
mail agent.




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list