how to send an e-mail --- (a problem!)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Sep 13 09:54:47 UTC 2006


Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 03:52pm on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 (UK time), Paul Howarth scrawled:
> 
>> I think what you're looking for is:
>>
>> $ echo hello | Mail -s test john.black at vpnmail.ru
>>
>> i.e. replace "sendmail" with "Mail" (note the upper case M).
> 
> Mail is soft linked to mail, so the upper case M makes no difference.

So it is. I've always used "Mail" as a habit; it must have been 
different from "mail" on some system I used in the past, SunOS 4 perhaps.

Paul.




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