Roland Roland wrote: > Hi all, > > i'm trying to get a script to send me an email whenever a certain > condition takes place.. > i'm afraid i dont have experience with mail command nor anything else > related to sending emails for that matter.. > > i googled a bit and tried using mutt and mail ... > though i do not recieve any email in my inbox... > > the command im using is the following : mail -s “disk space report” > R_O_L_A_N_D at hotmail.com > > should i setup a default smtp to use? where can i check for the errors > that are taking place? Does your machine have a valid domain name? Most places will reject mail if the From: address can't be resolved, and the mail program will use the user running the command and the host name to construct this address. Look in /var/log/maillog to see if that is the problem. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com