how to email!!

[bruce]

hey craig...

i got the test on yahoo... now i need to figure out what's going on on
earthlink.net

yeah.. it was in the spam section...

hmmm...

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite at azapple.com]
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:57 PM
To: bedouglas at earthlink.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: how to email!!


On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:56 -0700, bruce wrote:
> i have mail/sendmail...
>
> i need to know how to use the 'mail' command to simply send a test msg...
>
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mail someaddress at somedomain.tld

type subject - press enter
type message

to end message
type a '.' on a line all by itself and press return

yahoo will undoubtedly reject it because your smtp server doesn't
reverse in dns. You probably have to set smarthost in sendmail.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-
guide/s1-email-mta.html

might be helpful

Craig


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