Sending mail from command line

[Silver-0-surfer]

How in HECK!!!! do you do it:twisted:
lol, but seriously it just doesn'y work.

Running Centos and I type

mail [email protected]
subject: Test
Test
.
CC:none

....

and then I wait and wait and wait
(I get no mail)
I see this pop up

You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

and its like the email got sent to me. Do I need to set and smtp server or something anywhere? I'm really stuck here.

EDIT: buy "the email got sent to me" I mean to the server and not the client

Thanks to any1 that can help

 

[ponder]

Dunno about cli but from my early Unix days I remember Elm which can be launched from the cli.

 

[kingrob]

I installed Postfix (but you can also use CentOS sendmail) and used Dovecot (what a retarded named for mail agent!) to configure my IMAP and POP services.

Then it was : yum install thunderbird & my emails were flying off the server.

 

[Necuno]

wow haven't done this since school days and shell acounts

 

[S1ght]

Well all I know is the smtp commands when you telnet into a smtp server and they go like

MAIL FROM:
RCPT TO:
DATA:
bla bla
.

Not sure if this will help you, maybe you're forgetting the new line with the full stop

 

[kingrob]

yum install mutt

 

[AmpleHosting]

Install Exim,

and issue the following command:

$ echo "This is a test." | mail -s Testsubject [email protected]

See if that works for you.

 

[s0lar]

Install Exim,

and issue the following command:

$ echo "This is a test." | mail -s Testsubject [email protected]

See if that works for you.

Err um EXIM is hardcore for a beginner the echo "This is a test." | mail -s Testsubject would work no matter with MTA you are using.

use postfix its lighting fast and way easier, just set your smarthost to a public smtp like smtp.saix.net if you are using saix for you local. check out /var/log/maillog for any strange signs. i assume dns is setup correct.