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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can I send email under linux terminal?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:21:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111027092118.57dde4f0@rohan.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20111026T185030-717@post.gmane.org>

On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:56:00 +0000 (UTC)
James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Lavender <lavender_matrix <at> 163.com> writes:
> 
> > So whenever I want to write a email I have to reboot
> > my computer and boot the windows system. I'm thinking that
> > if I can send or receive mails just under terminal, no
> > need web pages or windows. Also at the same time could 
> > I send mails though the mail server what I use right now under
> > terminal?
> 
> A long time ago there was command line syntax called
> "mail". I have not used it in a long time, but I'm sure
> the old unix sources are around, but it may require
> sendmail to be installed. Dunno and my memory is
> not reliable that far back (hell, last week's memories are
> a stretch if you really want the truth)....
> 
> 
> Very useful for a variety of uses....
> 
> I did find this in portage; it seems useful, but
> i Have never used this package....
> 
> Come to think about it, the old mail command line
> stuffage may have been BSDish, but too foggy to
> recall the details......

mail is awesome and still very much around. I have versions called
mailx, nail and a few others too - it's wonderful for sending mail from
cron scripts


-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-22  9:47 [gentoo-user] Can I send email under linux terminal? Lavender
2011-10-22  9:57 ` Florian Philipp
2011-10-22 10:28 ` Mick
2011-10-22 13:14 ` Lavender
2011-10-22 13:18 ` Lavender
2011-10-22 15:24   ` Philip Webb
2011-10-26 16:56 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-10-26 16:51   ` Todd Goodman
2011-10-26 19:49     ` Mick
2011-10-26 19:55       ` Todd Goodman
2011-10-27  7:21   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]

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