On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Dominik George <n...@naturalnet.de> wrote: > Hi, > >>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? > > Sounds very much like an emacs anti-feature. > > $ mail -s Spammedyspam jdoe <<<"Bacon eggs without the spam" > > works perfectly on stretch and buster/sid. > > Can you try that and also mutt? > > -nik >
Thanks Dominick! Your command works (using 'mail' without any arguments to receive). I did have to install mailutils first (thanks Liam for pointing out the package: i discovered that 'mail' is not a package! :) ). Thanks Tomas also, for the information about setting up a mail transport (and the suggestion to use write). Although i did not do that explicitly, i imagine that apt-get did it somehow. (That would confirm what Curt (thanks for replying!) was saying about no setup being required.) And thanks songbird for replying: you are right, i specified next to nothing about my setup. (My excuse is that i was still in a state of shock. :) But i guess in that case i should have waited 24 hours to post.) I haven't decided yet whether to configure emacs to use local mail though, because the vast majority of my mail is over the internet, and it is very, very convenient to manage mail inside emacs (although i have not done that for probably 20 years). I do kind of wonder how emacs learned about my gmail account though, surely Google hasn't penetrated the space to the extent that it would be a heuristic to guess. My debian is stretch, btw, and i guess maybe i specified my gmail address to it at setup time or something? My email address certainly does not appear anywhere in my .emacs.d/init.el that i can see . . . Thanks again everybody for all your help!! dan
