email from terminal

[kkpal]

hi all

How do I send email from terminal (using mail). And what are the settings I have to do?
I am using FC7.

Thanks & Regards
KKPal

[scottro]

Your sendmail (or whatever you use as the system's MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) has to be setup correctly.
I've done it with postfix and the older, unmaintained, ssmtp. There's a few threads on the forums about it--do an advanced search, with my user name, ssmtp and postfix and you'll probably come across one of them. Look for the posts by stevea who describes how it should be done.

[cicatrix1]

man mail will give you all the options. Typically I just use mail -s <subject> whoever@blah.com

You can either pipe output to it (if from a script or something), or just type your message after the command, and hit control+D when you're done.