RE: question about sending mail and postfix
Assuming you can install new packages, the mail command comes in the
package bsd-mailx. Otherwise, you can try using the Postfix sendmail
command. You'll probably have to read the man page as the flags are
different from mail.
James
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com]
Sent: January 18, 2010 8:32 AM
To: debian-user
Subject: question about sending mail and postfix
This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I feel
like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and postfix
starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I somehow
failed to pick up.
I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send
all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I don't want
it to receive any email or relay or anything else.
I set this up a few years back with postfix and now trying to recreate
this setup, I am running into the problem that the mail command isn't
installed. It obviously doesn't come with postfix and there appears to
be a huge choice of packages that I could choose from in the debian
repositories, but isn't there a default? My guess is that my hosting
service installed such a stripped-down version of lenny that I didn't
get it.
Any enlightenment gratefully received,
Adam
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