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Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine

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On 2018-03-29, Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Today i needed to send a message to another user on my debian box.
>
> I thought i'd just do what used to be the usual thing on a unix box:
> i compose-mail in emacs (control-x m), and drafted the text, and put
> in the other user's name in the To: line.
>
> I then hit control-c control-c to mail it, but was really shocked when
> instead of sending it off, instead, my firefox popped up, displaying
> gmail, and my text was loaded in, poised to send off.
>
> I can see that would be useful (and in fact, i'm using this method
> right now to compose this mail just to see if it will actually
> go through), but it's not at all something that i asked for.
>
> So . . . if you want to send mail to another user on your box, and
> you do not want it to get bounced around on the internet but only
> to go into some spool queue somewhere strictly on your local machine,
> how do you do it?
>
> TIA for any info!! :)
>
> dan
>
>

Using the mail command from the mailutils or bsd-mailx packages will
give you the behaviour you want.

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how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 07:50 +0200
  Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> - 2018-03-29 09:10 +0200
    Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-03-29 09:20 +0200
      Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-29 11:50 +0200
    Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 19:40 +0200
  Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 09:10 +0200
  Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-03-29 13:40 +0200
  Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-29 22:40 +0200
    Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 23:00 +0200
      Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-30 06:10 +0200
      Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 06:10 +0200
        Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-30 06:20 +0200
      Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2018-03-30 06:50 +0200
        Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com> - 2018-03-30 07:30 +0200
        Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2018-03-30 07:40 +0200
          Re: how do you send mail to another user on a local debian machine Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2018-03-30 09:40 +0200

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