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Old 05-04-2005
Send email from unix terminal on Mac OS 10.x

Hello,

I want to send email from unix terminal on Mac OS 10.x. I have 2 user accounts on the system - userOne and root. I tried sending an email from userOne to root by entering "mail root". It prompts to enter Subject and the content. It doesn't give any error message, but root doesn't get any email. In /etc/hostconfig, MAILSERVER=-YES- I also tried sending an email from userOne to a yahoo email address. I got the same result. I am new email server and setting. I appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance.

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dsenableroot(8) 					    BSD System Manager's Manual 					   dsenableroot(8)

NAME
dsenableroot -- enables or disables the root account. SYNOPSIS
dsenableroot [-d] [-u username] [-p password] [-r rootPassword] DESCRIPTION
dsenableroot sets the password for the root account if enabling the root user account. Otherwise, if disable [-d] is chosen, the root account passwords are removed and the root user is disabled. A list of flags and their descriptions: -u username Username of a user that has administrative privileges on this computer. -p password Password to use in conjunction with the specified username. If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry. -r rootPassword Password to be used for the root account. If this is not specified for enabling, you will be prompted for entry. EXAMPLES
-dsenableroot Your username will be used and you will be queried for both your password and the new root password to be set to enable the root account. -dsenableroot -d Your username will be used and you will be queried for only your password to disable the root account. -dsenableroot -u username -p userpassword -r rootpassword The supplied arguments will be used to enable the root account. -dsenableroot -d -u username -p userpassword The supplied arguments will be used to disable the root account. Mac OS August 08 2003 Mac OS