Have problem to send email from command line according to the posts like this one:
To have the ability to send email from the command line, you will need to install the mailutils and postfix packages with the following commands.
apt-get install mailutils
apt-get install postfix
Now configure postfix by running the following command.
dpkg-reconfigure postfix
Your machine should now have the ability to send email from the command line. Test it.
echo "test" | mail yifang.tom@hotmail.com
Did not touch the postfix configuration part though, left it unchanged. But I never get it work. No error no mail in my hotmail.com. I must have missed something about the configuration. What I want to do is to send email to friends, and even my own hotmail account, from the command line when I am in the campus, office and home (I have wireless internet access at these three places where I do my stuff mostly.) I am using Ubuntu 11.10 on Compaq CQ630 laptop. My ISP is SHAW.COM and I do not have a domain at this moment.
Thanks a lot! YF