Mail Problem

[KB88]

Dear Fedora Forum members,

I am still relatively new to Linux and I'm still learning my way around the file system. I'm using Fedora 10. I want to send email from the command line, so I did a test. I typed the following:

mail myemailaddress@gmail.com
entered subject
entered body
hit control + D

The command window went back to the command line, didn't tell me it sent or failed, and I checked my email. Nothing. I followed all the steps outlined in these mail programs and it looks like it should be easy. Nothing seems to work when I do these things. Please help. Thanks.

[smr54]

See what errors you get in /var/log/maillog

Do you have sendmail, postfix, or another mta running? One needs one of those and it will probably have to be configured to send out to a specific server.

The easiest thing to set up for it is probably ssmtp.

See http://www.scottro.net/qnd/qnd-ssmtp.html

for a quick guide to setting up ssmtp. However, as per some other threads on this forum, it won't work for local emails, that is logwatch and other system emails that are sent to root.