Re: mailx (how is it able to send email?!?)

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:08:47 -0600, Beowulf wrote:

My question is I do not really understand how mailx is able to send me
email, and it does because I tested it:
echo "Hi" | mailx -s "A test email message" myemail@xxxxxxxxx

How does the above work?

Pretty sure as part of the mailx install, you were asked a few
questions for postfix setup. Most of your answers went into
/etc/postfix/main.cf setting up your Mail Transport Agent (MTA postfix)


For extra points: http://www.postfix.org
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