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chrisstankevitz
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 Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:59 pm Post subject: send email via command line: what protocol is used? |
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Imagine I use this command to send an email:
| Code: | | cat Hello | mail -s Subject me@here.com |
Does this use SMTP? If no, what does it use? If yes, what server does it connect to?
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Don't you mean "sendmail" instead of "mail"?
If so then, yes, it definitely uses SMTP. The server and login credentials are typically needs to be set up in a configuration file. Gentoo installs ssmtp by default as the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). See- John
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Mike Hunt
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:16 am Post subject: |
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| ... and the mail command is provided by the mail-client/mailx package. |
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