[X-Unix] Sending mail from the commandline?

Stroller macmonster at myrealbox.com
Sat Jan 26 01:52:25 PST 2008


On 26 Jan 2008, at 02:00, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, TjL wrote:
>> On 1/25/08, Kevin Stevens <groups at pursued-with.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jan 25, 2008, at 15:47, TjL wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's the easiest way to setup my iMac running 10.5.1 so that I  
>>>> can
>>>> send mail from the commandline, ala
>>>>
>>>>           cat "Hello World" |Mail -s "Test" luomat at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>> I'm really hoping that I don't have to go through and configure
>>>> sendmail just for this!
>>>
>>> man mail
>>
>> Um, was that supposed to be helpful?
>
> Yes, actually, it was.  However, I misread your command as IMail- 
> something and assumed you were running a different application and  
> weren't aware of mail.

TjL: please note that this is an entirely logical assumption to come  
to, considering your capitalisation of the command `Mail`.

Stroller.
  


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