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Old 11-27-2007
I have a questions about mail command

Any possibility to send a mail to internal mail using mail command? i am using fedora7.

Example:

username@192.168.1.1
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Old 11-27-2007
With or without SMTP mail?

To send mail within a single box, just use mail and the user name, that will go into their normal mail box.

Otherwise you will need sendmail, postfix or some other MTA (mail transfer agent) installed and configured.
 
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