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Author:  underthesun [ Thu Feb 24, 2011 12:57 am ]
Post subject:  sending mail through the "mail" command

Okay, I'm relatively clueless about linux, so please bear with me.

I have a linode account. What procedure must I got through in order to enable:

Code:
echo hello world | mail johnny@dewey.com


I also have a few domains at godaddy, would I have to change some MX records etc to my linode host's IP address? It's running ubuntu 9.04 if that changes anything.

Author:  obs [ Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:58 am ]
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ok well first you should upgrade to ubuntu 10.04, 9.04's support ended in october, see http://library.linode.com/troubleshooti ... 0.04-lucid for instructions

Then you need to install a mail server, either
http://library.linode.com/email/exim/se ... 0.04-lucid
or
http://library.linode.com/email/postfix ... 0.04-lucid

Then mail will work

Author:  underthesun [ Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:14 am ]
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Will sending mail as-is, say, to my gmail account possibly mark my IP as a spammer address though?

Author:  obs [ Thu Feb 24, 2011 9:43 am ]
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nah, especially if you add a SPF record, you need to add a TXT record for your domains DNS with, here is a good wizard http://old.openspf.org/wizard.html

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