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The Tuesday 2007-04-17 at 06:53 -0400, ken wrote:
> I need to email from the command line a previously created file. (The
> finished working command will go into cron and so should be completely
> programmatic.) Using Linux, There are a few open source apps that
> should work: mail, mailx, and nail. Weirdness is that they all share
> the same manpage. So maybe they all work exactly the same (???).
>
> Or maybe I should say they all fail to work in the same way, because I
> can't get anything to work at all or to give a helpful error message.
They are all the same physical program, using symlinks from older names.
> One complicating factor is that I don't want to set up a local mail
> server and according to the mail/mailx/nail manpage, I shouldn't have
> to. (That much I can understand of the manpage.) I have a remote mail
> (IMAPS/SSL) server which works perfectly fine with thunderbird.
I don't think that's a good/wise idea. There are many applications needing
it, starting with cron.
> The only error messages this and its variations yeild is:
>
> postdrop: warning: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address family
> not supported by protocol
> postdrop: warning: inet_protocols: configuring for IPv4 support only
I think you are indeed using the local mail server - postdrop is part of
it :-P
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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