On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 03:20:50PM -0400, 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?
No need to "convert". Sendmail has similar capabilities, but the "mail"
program is a separate entity. While sendmail watches your port 25 and
has all sorts of queues and such, "mail" is more of a one-off command
line utility. You should be able to install it along side sendmail.
Paul
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