how to configure mail command to use a specific mail server?

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Jul 8 09:56:10 UTC 2010


> When I use the mail command from the console the mail is delivered using
> the
> local postfix. How can I configure this command to use a specific mail
> server?
>
> I have a postfix running in other machine and I want that the client
> machines uses this server as outgoing server (configure it with other mail
> clients like thunderbird is trivial)
>
> Thanks in advance,

I don't belive that there is a way.  The mail command comes with Postfix
(or sendmail, or qmail, or...).

The most that I believe you an do is to configure the local postfix to use
the other server as a "smart relay".
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