Re: Learning Perl book, Chapter 1 example: open MAIL, |mail email_address doesn't work

2003-06-08 Thread Robin
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 03:36 am, Dan Mills wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 03:44, David Cantrell wrote: To send mail, you need two components. A mail client (aka a mail user agent or MUA) and an SMTP program (aka a mail transport agent or MTA). The 'mail' program is an MUA. It passes

Re: Learning Perl book, Chapter 1 example: open MAIL, |mail email_address doesn't work

2003-06-08 Thread Dan Mills
On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Robin wrote: On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 03:36 am, Dan Mills wrote: It's unfortunate that mail exits with 0, however. I was burned by this not very long ago (ran M-x mail in emacs for a quick mail, no error, never got there. Eventually I ran mailq and

the exit with 0 issueRe: Learning Perl book, Chapter 1 example: open MAIL, |mail email_address doesn't work

2003-06-08 Thread drieux
On Sunday, Jun 8, 2003, at 08:58 US/Pacific, Robin wrote: On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 03:36 am, Dan Mills wrote: [..] It's unfortunate that mail exits with 0, however. I was burned by this not very long ago (ran M-x mail in emacs for a quick mail, no error, never got there. Eventually I ran

Re: Learning Perl book, Chapter 1 example: open MAIL, |mail email_address doesn't work

2003-06-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003 20:24 -0700 Richard E. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working through the exercises in Chapter 1 of Learning Perl, Second Edition, O'Reilly publishers. I am using MacOS X (10.1.5), and Perl, v.5.6.0. An excerpt from one of the author's programs shows the following

Re: Learning Perl book, Chapter 1 example: open MAIL, |mail email_address doesn't work

2003-06-05 Thread Dan Mills
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 03:44, David Cantrell wrote: To send mail, you need two components. A mail client (aka a mail user agent or MUA) and an SMTP program (aka a mail transport agent or MTA). The 'mail' program is an MUA. It passes messages to a local MTA for delivery. IIRC on OS X the

Re: Learning Perl book, Chapter 1 example: open MAIL, |mail email_address doesn't work

2003-06-05 Thread drieux
On Wednesday, Jun 4, 2003, at 00:44 US/Pacific, David Cantrell wrote: On Tuesday, June 3, 2003 20:24 -0700 Richard E. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working through the exercises in Chapter 1 of Learning Perl, Second Edition, O'Reilly publishers. I am using MacOS X (10.1.5), and Perl,

Re: Learning Perl book, Chapter 1 example: open MAIL, |mail email_address doesn't work

2003-06-04 Thread stephen rouse
do you have sendmail configured? http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/10/sendmail.html At 8:24 PM -0700 6/3/03, Richard E. Adams wrote: I am working through the exercises in Chapter 1 of Learning Perl, Second Edition, O'Reilly publishers. I am using MacOS X (10.1.5), and Perl,

Re: Learning Perl book, Chapter 1 example: open MAIL, |mail email_address doesn't work

2003-06-04 Thread Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 11:24 PM, Richard E.Adams wrote: I am working through the exercises in Chapter 1 of Learning Perl, Second Edition, O'Reilly publishers. I am using MacOS X (10.1.5), and Perl, v.5.6.0. An excerpt from one of the author's programs shows the following three lines: