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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers I can send but cannot receive mail with unix? Post 302307344 by otheus on Wednesday 15th of April 2009 06:37:22 AM
Old 04-15-2009
Where to begin??

First, any email system must know how to find a computer named "somethingstrange-computer.local". Since this isn't an official DNS name, it might be a little confused. If the UNIX computer you are using is named "somethingstrange-computer.local" and you send it to this address, it generally has no problem figuring out that you simply want to send it to the local user "myname". However, another computer won't know how to contact this computer. So you can try emailing to your computer's fixed IP address, if it has one: myname@10.1.1.2 or if not, get a service called "dynamic DNS" so that your computer's IP address is always associated with a domain name, and simply mail to myname@dynamic-dns-service.net (for instance).

Note: it might still not be that easy; your UNIX computer might have a built in firewall or the email "service" might not be configured to receive external emails.
 

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mhmail(1mh)															       mhmail(1mh)

Name
       mhmail - send or read mail

Syntax
       mhmail [ addrs ...  ] [ options ]

Description
       The program is intended as a replacement for the standard mail programs, and See and for more details of these mail programs.  When invoked
       without arguments, it simply invokes to incorporate new messages from the user's maildrop.  When one or more users is specified, a  message
       is  read  from  the  standard  input  and spooled to a temporary file.  then invokes with the name of the temporary file as its argument to
       deliver the message to the specified user.

       Normally, people will use and to send messages.

Options
       -body text
		 Specifies the text of the message.  If it is specified, then the standard input is not read.

       -cc addrs Specifies addresses to be placed in the cc: field of the message.

       -from addr
		 Specifies the content of the From: header of the draft.  The address given is placed in the From:  field  of  the  message.   The
		 Sender: field is filled in correctly by

       -help	 Prints a list of the valid options for this command.

       -mts smtp Specifies  the  mail  system  over which mail is sent.  The only value allowed is smtp, which is the standard ULTRIX mail system.
		 Additional values are supported only for use with other mail systems.

       -subject text
		 Provides the text of the Subject: field of the message.

Restrictions
       Messages with a null body part will not be sent by You must include some body text in all messages to be sent by

       For this version, the -mts option only supports the value smtp.	Additional values are supported for use only with other mail systems.

Files
       Program to incorporate a maildrop into a folder.

       Program to deliver a message.

       Temporary copy of message.

See Also
       inc(1mh), post(8mh)

																       mhmail(1mh)
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