Re: [SLUG] whence /bin/mail?

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 14:18:33 EDT


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Steven Buehler wrote:
> --- 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?

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

Bah:

[eben@pc eben]$ echo test | mailto -s test eben
-bash: mailto: command not found

What package is mailto from?

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