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Old 03-03-2002
Question Mac OS X/UNIX/Terminal Question

Hey everyone

I'm new to UNIX due to the new Mac OS X operating system and would like some help. I'm trying to send an email via the UNIX-Shell-Terminal i Mac OS X, (it's called darwin)

How do I do that? When I enter the Command mail I can send messages to root and with the command -forward I'm forwarding the systemmaintenance reports to my emailinbox. Now I would like to send emails to the outside world via the terminal. When entering mail xxxx@xxxx.com I can specify a subject at send it but it returns a mailer demon error likely because I haven't specified any mailservers. How do I do that?

:-)
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Old 03-03-2002
Seeing as OSX is based on FreeBSD, why don't you check out BSD docs?

http://www.freebsd.org
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Old 03-03-2002
else,
Try this link to.. Might get handy
http://www.info.apple.com/support/help/machelp/
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Old 03-04-2002
Note: using your mac as a mail server is usually not a good idea unless you know what youre doing.

However, you should be able to and recieve mail on your mac by editing the file /etc/hostconfig. Chage the line:

MAILSERVER=-NO-

to

MAILSERVER=-YES-

and reboot.

MacOSX is NOT FreeBSD BTW. The BSD kernel and most of the unix "cli tools" are synched to FreeBSD but OSX is significantly different in all other respects.
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Old 03-05-2002
Computer

Thanks
 
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