<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 9:01 AM Adam Funk <<a href="mailto:a24061@ducksburg.com">a24061@ducksburg.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2021-06-17, Jerry Geis wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> I am trying to do something like:<br>
> echo "" | mail <a href="mailto:myemail@myemail.com" target="_blank">myemail@myemail.com</a><br>
><br>
> This just hangs... Weird right.<br>
><br>
> So I tried:<br>
><br>
> mail <a href="mailto:myemail@myemail.com" target="_blank">myemail@myemail.com</a><br>
> I got prompted for CC<br>
> I got prompter for Subject<br>
> I then entered both above - and a short body<br>
> on the far left I entered just the . and hit enter<br>
> nothing - it does not send ?<br>
><br>
> What might be happening that mail is not "sending".<br>
<br>
Maybe you need to install a mail transfer agent?<br>
<br>
I think nullmailer is good enough if you just want to send<br>
command-line, cron, and at mail to yourself.<br>
<br>
<br>
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