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The Tuesday 2007-04-17 at 21:29 -0400, ken wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> Don't know what you mean here.
That removing postfix is not wise.
> >> 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
>
> Postdrop may be part of it, but I don't have a local mail server
> running.
Yes, you do. Unless you uninstall postfix entirely, you are running it.
And the system will complain about that removal.
> 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.
I refer you to what Joachim Schrod wrote in this thread, I would only be
repeating his explanation. Having postfix (or sendmail or whatever)
installed and running does not means your machine is a mail server, far
from it. And Linux (and unix) is designed to have that functionality in
the system.
> So, anyone know how to use nail or other CLI MUA to send an email?
I have sent emails using nail. For the way you want it to work, Joachim
already explained it. I also saw what he did see, and I concur with him.
There is large information in the man page, but I would have to study it
in depth to give you a working tutorial, and I have my own problems to
solve...
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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