Testing email from the command line on GNU-Linux

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 9, 2007 - 7:11am

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If it tells you command mail not found, you're starting at the beginning, and you should run:

aptitude install mailx

(The x is the important part, aptitude can't find the basic mailer you need to send e-mail among all the packages with "mail" in the name.)

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e-mail Debian send e-mail

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