Re: [SLUG] whence /bin/mail?

From: Steven Buehler (swbuehler@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 13:44:51 EDT


Try 'mailto'. At least that's what it is on Mandrake.

SWB

--- Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Back when (Redhat 7.2 and before?) there was a utility called "mail" with
> which I could do thing like
>
> echo "Time to make the doughnuts." | mail -s "Doughnut time" emp@dunkin.com
>
> which would send a mail with the subject "Doughnut time" and the body
> "Time to make the doughnuts." to emp@dunkin.com . No executable called
> "mail" exists anywhere that I can find. I'm using Redhat 8
> (sendmail-8.12.5-7). How do I regain that functionality?
>
> --
> -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar
>
> Logic is a systematic method of coming to
> the wrong conclusion with confidence.
>
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