Re: mail

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (29/09/06 14:43), Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 09/29/06 13:10, 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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)
> 
> If you are a home user connecting thru a typical ISP, then you must
> configure exim as a smarthost.  "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" should
> point you in the right direction.

I believe that's 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'

Regards

Clive

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