[vox-tech] sending mail from shell

[Michael J Wenk]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:01:25AM -0800, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> What is the program/package which provides the 'mail' command that can 
> be used to send simple emails from shell?  It must be very basic, but my 
> gentoo install is missing it.
> 
> Jonathan
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You need to emerge mailx  


Oddly, I don't even see a sendmail on my system(usually its just a
symlink to whatever MTA in use) 

However mailx should be functionally equiv to the mail command on unix
systems.

Mike