On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Tevfik Y|cek wrote:
> 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.
I installed "mailx". That's the "mail" (82 KB) I remember.
-- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactarHanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Derived from Robert Heinlein
----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 20:00:04 EDT