On 2018-03-29, Dan Hitt <dan.h...@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.
