mailing list for mail/Mail/mailx

[Charles Bell]

On 06/29/2013 05:28 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 29 June 2013 17:13:31 Gene Heskett did opine:
>
> Ping??
>
>> Hello all;
>>
>> I'm on 10.04.4 LTS yet, and have a 'mail' problem, as it is either
>> sending to ~/dead.letter or straight into a /dev/null.  It did work a
>> year ago, and I have no clue when it stopped working because I had
>> temporarily stopped using the backup app, amanda, that used it.
>>
>> Googling for mail's mailing list only gets me 20 some pages of people
>> trying to sell a mailng list, or how to setup mailman to run a list.
>>
>> So, does anyone know where I can join the "mail" mailing list?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Cheers, Gene
> Well, since there seems not to be anyone knowledgeable about "mail-Mail-
> mailx (they are all the same ack the man page) and my install doesn't seem 
> to even give me the responses that the manpage talks about, (-d does 
> nothing, and -v for verbose has to be threatened to get any kind of a 
> message out of it, none of which is the least bit useful for debugging.
>
> So now I am asking what I can install that replaces mail with a 
> transparent, works like mail is supposed to, equivalent?  All I really need 
> is to restore the ability of a process, running as any user, to send me a 
> completion status msg.  Is the not such a beast?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene
Have you tried "sendmail".  You can install it using Apt-Get and then
read the manpages on its use.  If it is not what you want, you can
remove it.
Good luck!

Charles Bell

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