On 03/13/2012 09:52 AM, wes wrote: >> rsteff@moonguide:~$ "This is a test" | mail -s "Testing" >> [email protected] >> Null message body; hope that's ok >> Please install an MTA on this system if you want to use sendmail! >> Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 255 >> rsteff@moonguide:~$ > you forgot the "echo" in front.
rsteff@moonguide:~$ echo "This is a test" | mail -s "Testing" [email protected] Please install an MTA on this system if you want to use sendmail! Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 255 rsteff@moonguide:~$ Oops. Better, but still have to figure out what MTA to install. >> What program(s) constitute(s) the MTA (I assume that means Mail Transfer >> Agent)? And if I install one, will that affect my normal e-mail activity >> in any way? > You are correct about the meaning of MTA. I would not be able to answer > your question about affecting your normal e-mail activity without > understanding your normal e-mail activity. Normal e-mail activity is with Thunderbird. > did you try mailx? rsteff@moonguide:~$ echo "This is a test" | mailx -s "Testing" [email protected] Please install an MTA on this system if you want to use sendmail! Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 255 rsteff@moonguide:~$ Same result as mail. > whatever email system your distro comes with may have > some other way of submitting emails from the command line. If you can shed > some light on what that is, I will see if I can find any other helpful info. Distro is Ubuntu 10.04. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
