Re: [SLUG] whence /bin/mail?

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 14:38:44 EDT


On Friday 15 October 2004 01:27 pm, Eben King 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?

That's what it still is. Check that 'man mail' works, then check your sendmail
settings.

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Steve Szmidt

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