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

Warren Pollans warren at meyer-pollans.net
Wed Nov 9 13:23:56 PST 2005


OK, I got it - sendmail is not really sendmail - it's postfix
I found this article - www.reitter-it-media.de/software/osxpostfix.html
It works fine now



On Nov 9, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Warren Pollans wrote:

> Hello,
>
> When I try "hello | sendmail -fwarren at meyer-pollans.net 
> warren at meyer-pollans.net" I get an error that indicates (from 
> googling) that it wants/needs postfix - I'm on a G3 ibook (10.3.9)  -  
> the error is "... warning: unable to look up public/pickup ..."  I 
> tried it this way because this is what works on my linux box
>
> What's the easiest way to send mail from the commandline?  I'm trying 
> to send the contents of a text file - this is the log from a series of 
> tests that I've run - I'm having the script that runs the tests mail 
> me the results.  I'm just trying to get things setup so that I can run 
> from my ibook while I'm traveling
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Warren
>
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