mailx help

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Tue Jan 21 06:52:27 UTC 2014


On 01/21/14 14:47, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Well you must have sendmail or equiv installed:
>
>  cat d1.letter |mailx -t
> Ignoring header field "MIME-Version: 1.0"
> Ignoring header field "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii"
> Ignoring header field "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit"
> /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
> "/home/rgm/dead.letter" 37/741
> . . . message not sent.
>
> So it seems mailx cannot work even locally without sendmail, unlike what another poster here stated.
>
> procmail was suggested by another poster here that works for local delivery without sendmail.  I may end up having to install it.

Yes.  On the system I'm testing on sendmail is installed.

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