From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 18: 3:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64AE137B401 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 072FD43E4A for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kennethtucker@yahoo.com) Received: from h000393c22e4a.ne.client2.attbi.com (HELO yahoo.com) (kennethtucker@24.218.1.10 with plain) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2003 02:03:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:03:51 -0500 Subject: Re: mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Kenneth Tucker To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <01a701c2bc38$670422f0$1a24200a@me3> Message-Id: <97FECB58-282D-11D7-B30E-000393C22E4A@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG interesting but... % mail -v kennethtucker@yahoo.com Subject: sweet Yes! . EOT kennethtucker@yahoo.com... Connecting to localhost via relay... kennethtucker@yahoo.com... Deferred: Connection refused by localhost % On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:49 PM, Brian wrote: > if you want to use command line mail as opposed to a program, try mail > -v > user@domain.. > > Bri > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kenneth Tucker" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:38 PM > Subject: Re: mail > > >> just a cut and paste error what I meant was: >> >> % mail FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: not woking >> Thanks Adam and Daxbert for your help >> . >> EOT >> % >> >> On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:35 PM, Daxbert wrote: >> >>>> i am doing: >>>> >>>> Last login: Tue Jan 14 19:13:53 on ttyp2 >>>> Welcome to Darwin! >>>> % mail >>>> Missing name for redirect. >>>> % mail FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>>> Subject: not woking >>>> Thanks Adam and Daxbert for your help >>>> . >>>> EOT >>>> % >>>> >>> >>> avoid < and > on the command line. They are used for redirecting >>> input/output. If you need to use them, quote them. >>> >>> Daxbert >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message