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| Author: | Quik [ Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Sending mail from the command line only |
Easy question. I'm running a fairly fresh install of Debian, which comes with Exim installed by default (along with a strange lack of a config file). However, I'm unable to send any outgoing emails from the command line with that. All I'd like is a very unobtrusive MTA (?) that will let me send mail from the command line and nothing else - I don't need to be able to connect from Outlook or have any ports listening to outside connections, etc. I think I'm making this harder than it should be! Edit - I'm also not sure on the DNS settings for this - does it require MX records? |
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| Author: | jftuga [ Tue Jun 01, 2004 3:09 pm ] |
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IIRC, you should be able to send mail from the command line with either mail or mutt. Code: mail -s "My Subject" user@example.com < message.txt -John |
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| Author: | Quik [ Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:55 pm ] |
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Thanks for the reply John. Using either mail or mutt simply results in the error: Quote: email@address.com: unrouteable mail domain "address.com"
I've a feeling this is something to do with my DNS configuration, but I don't have any experience with the mail side of things 
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| Author: | acid2000 [ Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:58 pm ] |
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Have you tried running eximconfig? |
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| Author: | Quik [ Wed Jun 02, 2004 10:47 am ] |
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acid2000 wrote: Have you tried running eximconfig?
Thanks! 
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