On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:18:33 -0400 (EDT), 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?
>
Try "nail" which is similar to mail i guess. I have both mailto and
nail by default.
Tevfik
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