From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 3:58: 0 2002 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 01CA337B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.seattleFenix.net (seattleFenix.net [216.39.145.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544B043E3B for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roo@mail.seattleFenix.net) Received: (from roo@localhost) by mail.seattleFenix.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7AAul745546; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:56:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roo) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:56:47 -0700 From: Benjamin Krueger To: Pavan Balaji Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command line mail program Message-ID: <20020810035647.A44796@mail.seattleFenix.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from balaji@cis.ohio-state.edu on Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:46:19AM -0400 X-PGP-Key: http://www.macguire.net/benjamin/public_key.asc 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 * Pavan Balaji (balaji@cis.ohio-state.edu) [020810 03:46]: > > Is there some mail program using which I can send mails from command line > (unlike pine). The only ones I use are mail, rmail and sendmail and I > don't think (not sure though) they allow us to specify the subject, CC > addresses etc. > > Any ideas? > > > -- Pavan MAIL(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MAIL(1) NAME mail, Mail, mailx - send and receive mail SYNOPSIS mail [-EiInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... [-sendmail-option ...] mail [-EiInNv] -f [name] mail [-EiInNv] [-u user] 'mail' should work for you just fine from the command line. If you don't want Pine, but wish to have a user interface oriented client, try 'mutt'. Regards, -- Benjamin Krueger "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message