On 04/17/2007 10:59 AM somebody named Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Tuesday 2007-04-17 at 06:53 -0400, ken wrote:
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>> 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 (???).
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>> 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.
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> They are all the same physical program, using symlinks from older names.
Okay, good to know.
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>> 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.
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> I don't think that's a good/wise idea. There are many applications needing
> it, starting with cron.
Don't know what you mean here. The only reason I mention tbird at all
is to show that I have a working mail connection, i.e., can send mail
just fine already. Tbird is a GUI, not for CLI noninteractive use, not
what I'd use for the task at issue.
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>> The only error messages this and its variations yeild is:
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>> postdrop: warning: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address family
>> not supported by protocol
>> postdrop: warning: inet_protocols: configuring for IPv4 support only
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> I think you are indeed using the local mail server - postdrop is part of
> it :-P
Postdrop may be part of it, but I don't have a local mail server
running. According to the postdrop manpage, postdrop is a "Postfix mail
posting utility". If nail calls a utility provided by postfix, I don't
mind. But it isn't the same thing as running a mail server and doesn't
mean that I need to run a mail server or that I am already running a
mail server. Let me add that I don't need to run a mail server to do
what I want to do right now and that I don't want to run a mail server
for this particular purpose.
So, anyone know how to use nail or other CLI MUA to send an email?
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> Cheers,
> Carlos E. R.
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