Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:00:44 -0500 (EST) From: IAccounts <iaccounts@northnetworks.ca> To: Brian Henning <b1henning@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mail problem Message-ID: <20030306115859.M4415-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> In-Reply-To: <OE36rhVRAGMd4uzHNjd00000cb8@hotmail.com>
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> i am able to perform the following command fine when i want to send mail on the > local network. > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" henninb@localhost > > is there a flag that i can pass to mail to tell it to use the proper server for > when i want to perform this operation to an address outside my local network? > cat input_message.txt | mail -s "hello world" b1henning@hotmail.com I've always redirected the file into the mail command as opposed to piping cat results to the mail command. eg: # mail -s "Hello, World!" steve@mydomain.com < input_message.txt Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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