On 07/08/2011 08:10 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 07/08/2011 01:45 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >>> and it works great. The man pages keep using examples like >>> "j...@somewhere.com", but when I try that with my email account >>> (n...@whatever.edu), it fails (as in nothing happens and I sometimes get >>> resend errors). I can ping whatever.edu successfully. >>> >>> I am certain this is a stupid pilot error, but can't figure it out. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> > > Does your ISP permit you to send mail directly via port 25? Many do not > these days - which means outgoing mail will need to be sent using your > ISP's mail sending agent. > > I suggest before sending via command line tools - you use a GUI mail > client such as thunderbird - and set up a mail account on thunderbird > using the instructions from your ISP. > > If you can get that to work - then you can worry about using the command > line mailx program and learn how to have it (or your local sendmail) use > your ISP for outgoing mail. >
FYI, you trimmed and got the attribution wrong. I didn't write any of the above..... -- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
