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Replace /usr/bin/mail with Mail.app
Authored by: njnystrom on Aug 22, '03 01:45:30PM

I'm not sure if these alerts use /usr/bin/mail or invoke sendmail directly. I suppose you could install the script as /usr/bin/mail and see what happens, but I haven't tried this.

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Replace /usr/bin/mail with Mail.app
Authored by: stetner on Aug 23, '03 07:57:54AM

I run sendmail myself, but I was curious what happens when you are logged out and Mail.app isn't running and can't be started due to no GUI running?



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Replace /usr/bin/mail with Mail.app
Authored by: njnystrom on Aug 23, '03 01:49:12PM

I assume it wouldn't work if I were logged out, but I'm just using the script on my Powerbook, where I'm the only user and I'm always logged in. I think if you're running a server, you should just bite the bullet and configure sendmail or postfix.

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