Bug 187

Summary:	mail command didn't work to send email
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	AL13N <alien>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description AL13N 2011-02-26 14:16:50 CET

Description of problem:

tried to send email as follows: (in mageia)

[]$ env MAILRC=/dev/null from=maarten.vanraes@gmail.com host=10.238.9.1 mail -s "pubkey for alien" -a .ssh/id_dsa.pub -r maarten.vanraes@gmail.com dest@recipient.org < <( echo "here is pubkey for alien." )

sendmail not installed, email not sent

i guess it uses sendmail internally, but postfix wasn't installed? is there a requirement missing? (or suggests?)



Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 AL13N 2011-02-26 14:18:33 CET

after installing postfix:

postdrop: unable to look up public/pickup

Comment 2 AL13N 2011-02-26 14:20:11 CET

postfix installation seemed to restart "system logger", but not postfix, i had to start postfix to make the sending email work...

Comment 3 Nicolas Vigier 2011-02-26 14:21:59 CET

nail can also use smtp, so I don't think a dependency is required.

Comment 4 AL13N 2011-02-26 14:24:17 CET

i had to set relayhost, and after that, it worked.

but, i thought mail with host= environment variable should use smtp directly?


@boklm: i was using mail (mailx) not nail

Comment 5 Nicolas Vigier 2011-02-26 14:39:13 CET

So it was just a config problem ?

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => boklm
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 6 AL13N 2011-02-26 18:15:11 CET

well, i don't know:

A. [bug?] postfix wasn't installed (even though mail is)
B. [bug?] postfix after installation restarts "system logger", while i think it should restart postfix, not system logger
C. i configured postfix
D. maybe mail can be used without postfix, but i don't know that...

Comment 7 Nicolas Vigier 2011-02-26 18:19:31 CET

Which version of "mail" are you talking about ?

Comment 8 AL13N 2011-02-26 19:17:14 CET

the command i used was "mail"

when i did "man mail" i got a man page from mailx, so i assume mail is an alias of mailx ?

Comment 9 Nicolas Vigier 2011-02-26 19:46:43 CET

You say you are not using nail. But nail provides /bin/mail.
So if you are not using nail, which one are you using ?

Comment 10 AL13N 2011-02-26 20:12:55 CET

hmm, i see your point, i guess i _am_ using nail; it is confusing though

how is nail used with smtp? i followed the man page, but i guess it still used sendmail.

perhaps since nail uses sendmail by default, a suggest could be added?

Nicolas Vigier 2014-05-08 18:06:41 CEST

CC: boklm => (none)