Got a ton of responses, quickly all were good. The first good ones I got were from Dirk Bvnning Keplinger, Michael John Timon Rick Waegner Scott Croft The consensus was that mail, mailx uses the local MTA running on port 25. Most people , such as me, use sendmail so the relay is in the sendmail.cf. I did not have my mailserver specified in that file so I was still stumped on how I was able to send outgoing mail never having edited the file. Dirk Bvnning had the solution since sendmail uses mailhost.<my domain> as default and my company's mail server has this DNS record . thanks Original question -------------------------------- When I use the mail or mailx command to send a mail message from the command line or script, how does mail know which mail server to use. Can be it specified and if it is in a config file which file is it and where is it. It didn't say in "man mail". thanks _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Jul 12 12:11:56 2002
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