Re: mail

[Christopher Richard Nelson <chris@cavein.org>]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:10:34AM +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 19:54 +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
> 
> > Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
> > > i cann't remember how, but i was able to send mail to any email
> > > address from redhat useing "mail someone@domain.com "
> > > how can i get this with debian ?
> > 
> > Do you mean something like this:
> > 
> > echo "this is a test." | mail -s "test" user@example.com
> > 
> > You need to have a mail transfer agent (MTA) configured and running, if
> > this shall work. The default MTA with Debian is Exim.
> > 
> > Which version of Debian (stable/testing/unstable) are you running? Is
> > Exim or another MTA (postfix) installed and configured on your system?
> > 
> 
> i am using unstable. i tried exim. but after long time waiting, it's
> give me a dalivery failure notice. then now testing send mail. useing
> mail client with send mail. now i can send. but mail command is not
> working any more (i removed exim4) 

How exactly is it not working?  Is it giving an error?  Silently
failing?  What do you see if you do a `mailq`?

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Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
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