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Revision as of 05:11, 1 September 2019
By default, mailx will use a local MTA (usually sendmail) to transfer emails. If the machine you're using doesn't have sendmail, mailx will fail to send the email.
This can be resolved by specifying a mail server directly, in the case below, the SMTP server:
mail -s "subject" -S smtp=smtp://smtp.home.steamr.com "recipient@home.steamr.com"
You can set the default SMTP server by defining it in /etc/mail.rc with the following line:
set smtp=smtp://smtp.home.steamr.com