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From: Marco Rebhan <me@dblsaiko.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mailto net-mail/metamail
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:45:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4407445.bCryOWLpDA@invader> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0e5a86b5-dcbd-cd2f-1c31-39512e54187f@sys-concept.com>

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On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 02:45:00 CET thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I think "mailto" used to be part of the package net-mail/metamail
> But I think is long time gone.
> 
> What is the replacement?
> I just need to send myself an email from the command line to test postfix.

Postfix should come with a program to do this, sendmail:

> saiko@polaris ~ % sendmail 'me@dblsaiko.net'
> Subject: Test mail
> 
> Body content
> foo
> bar
> .
> saiko@polaris ~ %

Of course, that's given you're running it on the same box as the one you set 
up Postfix on.

The man page describes it as a compatibility interface for sendmail but I'm 
not sure if there's an expliticly Postfix way to do this.

-Marco

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-06 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-06  1:45 [gentoo-user] mailto net-mail/metamail thelma
2023-12-06  7:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-12-06 15:34   ` thelma
2023-12-06 17:45 ` Marco Rebhan [this message]

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