[Cialug] 12.1, Postfix, & mail

[Andrew Denner]

It looks like it depends on 1.56-2 - perl, libio-socket-inet6-perl,
libio-socket-ssl-perl and,  libnet-ssleay-perl (at least for ubuntu).

In apt it is listed as sendemail.


On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:
> On 7/6/2012 2:08 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>>
>> Heretofore, any Unix/Linux machine I have used had an alias for 'mail'
>> used by the local MTA (sendmail, postfix, et al) for sending email from
>> the command line.
>>
>> Imagine my surprise when I build a 12.1 server (Postfix MTA), and there is
>> no mail or sendmail!
>>
>> How is one supposed to send email from the commandline now?
>
>
> There's always
> nc <host> 25
> ehlo
> mail from:
> rcpt to:
>
> .
>
> :)
>
> Or a more practical suggestion: I use sendEmail from the command line to
> script bulk messages to students based on exam results/grades/etc.
> It might require a system "sendmail" under the hood, however.
> -PG
>
>
>
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