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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: Re: Looking for a substitute to /usr/bin/mail
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 12:53:31 +0000 (UTC)
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Patrick Samson <p_samson AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> I use a product which uses the command 'mail'.
> I didn't find any /usr/bin/mail.exe in any
> available package.
> Does it mean that one have to install an email
> package and do a cp or ln to the email client?
>
> The product just needs to do something like:
> echo "$msg" | mail user AT domain -s "$s"
>
> Amongst mutt, ssmtp, exim, pine, ... is there a best
> equivalent to the conventional Unix mail command?

You need ssmtp or exim to actually handle the sending of the mail.
"mail" in this case could be emulated with a sccript to create a header
with "user AT domain" in the To: field, "$s" in the Subject field, put in a
blank line, and use "$msg" as the mail body; and then send the whole
thing on to sendmail (ssmtp or exim).  Probably either exim or 
mutt-with-ssmtp could do this for you.

Robert


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