Re: Mail command

[Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>]

> Hi,
> 
> As I am on a university network I have no right to send mail on my
> machine. So I haven't installed any mail software until now. However, I
> have set up my web page with stuff for downloading and a form. I would
> like to have the cgi script to send an internal mail to a user on my
> machine , no mail messages will be leaving the machine. Thw script
> requires the binary /usr/bin/mail , the standard mail program, or
> equivalent,  which I
> haven't been able to find. I have installed smail with no network and
> pine. It works fine but if I can't get some form of non-interative mail
> program I can't get the cgi script to work.
> 
> Anybody can tell me of the equivalent of /usr/bin/mail for Debian ??

Install "mailx" package for simple non-interactive mailer.
It contains /usr/bin/mail binary you are looking for.

Alex Y.

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