Re: [bug-mailutils] mail.remote

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

djh <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> I wanted to find out what "mail.remote" does, but the manual is not done for 
> this and I can't find a command to do a  $ mail.remote --help  on....

Basically it sends mail to the given SMTP server, e.g.:

   mail.remote --mailer smtp://10.10.10.1 -t < msg

will read the file msg, deduce recipients from its headers (-t option)
and send it via the server 10.10.10.1   
 
> Athought there's a -->   mail.remote.exe  
> in   .../cvs/mailutils/mail.remote/mail.remote.exe
> 
> Is it not being installed automatically?

It is installed in $prefix/libexec.

Regards,
Sergey