i have mail/sendmail... i need to know how to use the 'mail' command to simply send a test msg... thanks -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:45 PM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: how to email!! On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:37 -0700, bruce wrote: > stupid question, i know!!! > > i have FC3, how do i send an email... need the basic comands for a test. i > wnat to send/test msgs to a yahoo account! > > looking at google hasn't shown me exactly what i need to type! > ---- most people would use evolution or kmail or mozilla mail or thunderbird (any or all are sufficient), and set up an account per the details provided to them by their internet service provider (typically a pop3 account) which should give them the name of the pop3 server, account name, password and smtp server Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.