[X-Unix] how to send mail from commandline?

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Nov 10, 2005, at 6:40 PM, Warren Pollans wrote:

> thanks,  all of the various suggestions are fine and work IF postfix 
> is properly configured.
>
> My problem was that the postfix configuration was hosed - I don't how 
> it got that way.
>
> Once I fixed the postfix config, my original method worked fine


	You could always install pine, mutt or any other CLI mail client that 
can be configured to use whatever mail server you tell it to in its 
conf files, whether it be smtp for sending or pop/imap for receiving. 
But yes, to use simple mail(1) or the postfix sendmail replacement to 
send mail from the command line you'll always need your local smtp up 
and running. And don't worry about batch processing if you're concerned 
about taking the output of some command and piping it to pine, mutt or 
any other, all of them support command line flags to pre-specify 
remittent, recipient, reply to address, subject line, whatever, and 
reading message data from standard input.

	Regards,...


		Juan