Re: question about sending mail and postfix

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

> -----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.

James Wu on 18/01/10 14:50, wrote:
> 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.

Hi James
thanks. Isn't bsd-mailx just a random choice from all of those listed when I 
search the repositories?


Adam