<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Tuesday 01 September 2009 11:05:00 am Chris G wrote: > 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@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. Actually, if you execute the command it will tell you that it sent a message with an empty body - which should have been received. There is no requirement that a message have a body. Regardless, I have tried it as well with a small text file. Same results. </body></html>