Try this from command line: echo "hello" |mail -s "Test Message" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
See if it appears in your normal mail. If so, you're done. Most distro's setup your server/workstation to be able to drop off normal mail. As long as DNS is available to the box, mail normally works. Good Luck - sorry for the late reply (I'm working too hard...) Jon Carnes On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 10:44, Wing D Lizard wrote: > I'd like to send myself an email message ( 'update your timecard, > slacker') via a cron job. > > > Can I do this without setting up sendmail? Is there a > simple package that will send mail to my roadrunner smtp > server? > > Thanks. > b > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.1.0 - Release Date: 2/18/2005 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
