the command 'mail' is not on the SysAdmin Survival CD that comes with european boxes. Could this be included in a future version in order to allow mailing config files out of a broken system?
mail doesn't work on a system without an MTA - and we don't have enough space for mail+postfix or mail+sendmail (credit card sized CDs are limited to 30 MB). You can currently use nc to mail a file out (by sending raw smtp commands). I'm thinking about adding a script that makes this easier (but it won't have the same parameters as "mail" - you (obviously) need to specify an smtp server).
Added a new mailer for 7.1.97 - hope it'll actually work for anything other than my test cases. ;)