Cannot send mail on Centos 5?

[jimcheng]

I tried to use mail command to send an email on Centos 5.2 with no luck.

$/bin/mail -s "Hello" mymail@yahoo.com < body.txt

The commands runs fine with no error. I was never able to receive the email.

What's wrong here? Do I have to install SendMail sever?


Thanks,
Jim

[dijetlo]

>>I tried to use mail command to send an email on Centos 5.2 with no luck.<<
Mail on slackware derived systems is actually mailx, which is a client. You'd have to configure the client to a pop or imap server to actually pull mail down from an account.
The sendmail server is a lot more than you need for a small office or home use. Just configure the client for your existing server and you should be good.

[jimcheng]

Thanks.
Actually, the problem is not with receiving mail but sending mail.

The following command is supposed to send out the email, but actually not.
$/bin/mail -s "Hello" mymail@yahoo.com < body.txt

[dijetlo]

Thanks.
Actually, the problem is not with receiving mail but sending mail.

The sequence is client/server/client. Where's the server...yahoo? Did you configure mailx to connect to your pop account on yahoo? No, it doesn't know anything about your account on yahoo other than a URL that corresponds to "inbound" for it.
Can it send it to sendmail? Sendmail is not configured. Unless you have a default system wide email account you haven't mentioned, you basically shot it into a bit bucket. You wont be getting it.
Sorry if I wasn't clear the last time.

[Felarin]

You have to configure sendmail to use the address you have configured on your primary network card. If not, unless you're sending mail to other local user's mailboxes, it won't work.