Hi.

This doesn't answer your original question, but it will allow you to send
mail. Hopefully, that's good enough.

Since you're using Linux, you should have sendmail on your computer (or you
can install it from an RPM). Should you find it necessary to reconfigure
sendmail a bit, you'll also need to install the sendmail-cf RPM.

Having done so, all you need to do is pipe your mail msg into
/usr/sbin/sendmail. In bash, something like the following will do the job:

$ /usr/sbin/sendmail -t <<EOF
To: vader@empire.org
From: luke@jedi.org

Dear Dad:

Send money.
EOF

There are also some Perl modules (Mail::whatever) that deal with email;
maybe one of them will solve the original problem.

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