whats the easiest way to send text email to a specific addre

carbon · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 455 Location: New York

I am trying to find out how to send a email with a single command in the prompt. I was reading how to setup a postfix mail server, but that seems to overkilling. Is there a simple program that allows me to do the folllowing thing?

programName [text message] [address to send to]

or am I looking for something doesnt exist yet.
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adaptr · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:34 pm Post subject:

You can do this with the standard "mail" program included in the "mailx" package.
All you need for it is a mail sender - ssmtp is included in Gentoo by default.

carbon · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 455 Location: New York

thanks, i will try that
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adaptr · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject:

Note that I edited my post - didn't see that you had replied *already* ;-)

The mail program is in the mailx package:

carbon · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 455 Location: New York

mail -s "ip changed" bobbyjones@hotmail.com < "ip"

send-mail: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf

postdrop: warning: My hostname localhost is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf

what does mailx have to do with postfix?
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