mail / mailx question

[Ben Eisenbraun]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:07:14PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:37:22AM -0500, Chandler, Scott wrote:
> > Thanks for the ideas but I really don't want to change my current
> > config, it's working fine. 
> 
> It would seem that you need to reevaluate whether it really does work
> fine...  What DSR says is correct: Berkeley mail (or its clones)
> doesn't work the way you want.

'man 1 mailx' on my Fedora 12 box notes this option:

    smtp   Normally, mailx invokes sendmail(8) directly to  transfer
           messages.  If the smtp variable is set, a SMTP connection
           to the server specified by the value of this variable  is
           used  instead.  If the SMTP server does not use the stan-
           dard port, a value of server:port can be given, with port
           as a name or as a number.

So it does seem like mailx will support what Scott wants to do.  All the 
information and options are in the man page, which is a nice change for a 
linux machine.

-b

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