Exim problems: mail -s doesn't work

spline · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 13

Hi,

i tried to set up exim as MTA.
When I try to send a simple mail with the command
mail -s "bla" root
I get the error message:
exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -s

Details:
>which mail
/usr/bin/mail

>ls -l /usr/bin/mail
/usr/bin/mail -> ../sbin/exim

What's going wrong?

Regards

spline

Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:00 am Post subject:

Maybe the mail command exim bundles isn't the standard mail we all know and love? :wink:

If you write "mail --help" (or some other gibberish, --help isn't actually an option...), does it return

spline · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 13

Hi,

here is the result:

Janne Pikkarainen · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:04 am Post subject:

Well that explains a lot. Read the exim documentation, it should tell you what options are available to its mail. If it isn't supposed to work like the traditional mail, then you'll have to figure out if you can still emerge mailx without destroying your exim installation.
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spline · n00b Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 13

Thank you Janne,

now i will emerge mailx and try to fix things up.
I had a - short - look into the exim man page but didn't find the answer.
So mailx will hopefully do the right things.

spline