Re: [SLUG] whence /bin/mail?

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 17:08:22 EDT

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, steve szmidt wrote:

> On Friday 15 October 2004 03:20 pm, Eben King wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, steve szmidt wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > [eben@pc eben]$ man mail
> > No manual entry for mail
> >
> > [eben@pc eben]$ locate bin/mail
> > /usr/bin/mailq
> > /usr/bin/mailstat
> > /usr/bin/mailq.sendmail
> > /usr/bin/mail-files
> > /usr/bin/mailshar
> > /usr/lib/news/bin/mailpost
> > /usr/sbin/mailstats
> >
> > What should I look for in the settings?
> >
> > mailx-8.1.1-26.i386.rpm has /bin/mail ; should I convert, or does a
> > similar utility exist in sendmail?
>
> Try installing it. : )

Thanks, that worked.

[eben@pc eben]$ ls /var/spool/mail/eben
   0 /var/spool/mail/eben

[eben@pc eben]$ echo test | mail -s test eben

[eben@pc eben]$ ls /var/spool/mail/eben
4.0K /var/spool/mail/eben

> No mail relies on sendmail (whatever your mailserver s/w is).

Well, I thought it was an MTA. Should have done an rpm -qlp ... 

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