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

[Alexander Dalloz]

SERGIE schrieb:

>Guys,
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>using 
>echo hello | sendmail -s test john.black at vpnmail.ru fails. It stays
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Where did you got that command line from?

>in /var/spool/mqueue or /var/spool/clientmqueue with DERIVED status.
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Former is the daemon's mail queue, last the submission mail queue.

>I think that either FROM address & Return-Path are wrong, or the sender's 
>address could not be resolved by target SMTP.
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date | mail -s "this is a test" recipient at otherdomain.tld

And read your /var/log/maillog to see what happens.

>How do I send a simple e-mail? sendmail is too complicated. Is there anything 
>else (exim and postfix I tried and cried...)
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What does the MTA have to do with client side mail sending? - Normally 
done by using a MUA, like mail, nail, mutt, pine ... or a GUI one like 
evolution or thunderbird.

Alexander