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mail command not working

Asked by srihari

I have installed postfix.
when i type mail,
it gives this

rudra@Rudra-home:~$ mail
The program 'mail' can be found in the following packages:
 * mailx
 * mailutils
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
bash: mail: command not found
rudra@Rudra-home:~$

Does it require to install above pkgs even after installing postfix.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

yes

do sudo apt-get install mailx

and sudo apt-get install mailutils

to run mail command

Regards

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Hemanth (hemanth-hm) said : 		#2

Do as Bhavani Shankar said :

Type these lines in the terminal

1. sudo apt-get install mailx (it will ask your password type it )

2.sudo apt-get install mailutils

3. type 'mail' command

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LarryE (cppljevans) said : 		#3

Unfortunately, I did the mailx install, but then when I tried the install of
mailutils, it uninstalled mailx. However, the command mail still worked,
as shown below in an emacs eshell session:

<--cut here--
~/howto/Mail $ which mail
mail is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `sendmail'
~/howto/Mail $ mail <email address hidden>
Cc:
Subject: using mail from pkg mailutils
using mail from pkg mailutils.

.
~/howto/Mail $
>--cut here--

However, so far, I'm not able to retrieve that message with
thunderbird.

Why not?

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