On 14/12/12 13:13, Tobias Wagner wrote:
Hello, I am trying to send a simple email to my address with no success. I logged in via ssh and typed: echo "This is a test." | mail -s "Test subject" test@gmx.de It didn't give an error message, but no email was received. I have searched the net but there's so many tools associated to it (mutt, exim, sendmail, ...) that I am totally confused. I only need to send mails from commandline, no inbox needed.
Assuming you have a default configuration then you probably have exim. Type the following: sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-configand answer the questions. By default, IIRC, exim is configured not to send any e-mail outwards.
You probably want the "mail sent by smarthost; no local mail" option, then tell it the name of the mail server which will accept and forward your outgoing mail.
HTH John