[vox-tech] sending mail from shell

[Jeff Newmiller]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, 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.

mailx - mail user agent package
interface between people/high-level applications and mail transport system
mailx may be invoked as "mail", "mailx", or "Mail"
comparable functions: pine, mutt, evolution (though none of these handle
stream input well like mailx does)

sendmail - mail transport agent
typically accepts mail through pipes or smtp connections
handles header normalization and mail routing functions
comparable functions: exim, qmail, Microsoft Exchange

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