RE: [TCLUG:22133] sending mail

["Jonathan Erickson" <jon.erickson@neicoltech.org>]

Thanks Gabe!

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabe Turner (officer) [mailto:dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 1:52 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22133] sending mail
>
>
> Well, with mail you can't specify an smtp server.  It just gives the
> message to your locally running sendmail and then sendmail sends it off.
> If you're trying to send an email to joe@blah.com, you just type
>
> mail joe@blah.com
>
> The message will appear to joe as if it came from the machine
> that you sent
> it from.  In order to make it appear that it came from
> you@yoursmtpserver.com you'll have to use a bit more sophisticated MUA.
>
> HTH,
>
> Gabe
>
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:41:01PM -0500, Jonathan Erickson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just a small problem using the command line "mail" program.  I
> want to be
> > able to send a message to an internet email account.  I think the
> > "/etc/mail.rc" file needs to be edited but I'm not sure of the
> syntax.  How
> > do I specify the smtp server and such?
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
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