[Gllug] mail

will will at hellacool.co.uk
Mon Mar 4 17:44:28 UTC 2002


Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On 3/4/02, 4:55:53 PM, will <will at hellacool.co.uk> wrote regarding Re: 
> [Gllug] mail:
> 
> 
> 
>>>For that you need the mailx package.  Is it installed?
>>>
> 
>>Nope, and a search on freshmeat, sourceforge(not working) and google
>>seem to have come up with little.  Is there a web site for this program?
>>
> 
> Mailx is the name of the package (on RH and Debian, anyway) that provides 
> the command line "mail" binary.  It's part of the core distro in both 
> cases. What distro are you using?

I have the mail binary, as in I type in:

#mail user at domain.com

I assumed I didn't have it after looking for the string 'mailx' and not 
finding anything.  I am using mandrake 8.1

Will.


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