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Debian gui is is borked again and I have no mail facility to get assistance from mailing lists as I certainly do not want to run a windows mailer. What is a good command line mailer that I can run from the virtual terminals.

Ideally, it will leave all the mailer on the server.

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Good command line mailer

Submitted by pinniped on Mon, 2007-07-09 04:45.

The usual 'mail' works fine, although I don't know how to authenticate to a mail server (surely mail has been updated to provide authentication to the relay?). Debian usually installs exim - that should authenticate etc. Never done it personally though; only ever seen scripts send mail to root and such, but if exim couldn't authenticate then it wouldn't be able to send external mail either, ergo it must authenticate. You'll need to read the docs, write your mail in a text file, and transmit the text file. Trust me - you don't want to do inline editing.

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