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Olivier Lalonde
Asked: 2010-11-13 12:27:59 +0800 CST

How to send mail from the command line?

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How to send mail from the command line?

command-line email

16 Answers

    1. Install ssmtp Install ssmtp:

      sudo apt-get install ssmtp

    2. Edit the ssmtp config file:

      gksu gedit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

    3. Append the following text:

      [email protected]
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:465
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
AuthUser=username
AuthPass=password
FromLineOverride=YES
UseTLS=YES

    4. Run ssmtp and provide the recipient email address:

      ssmtp [email protected]

    5. Provide the message details as follows:

      To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Subject: Sent from a terminal!

Your content goes here. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing.
(Notice the blank space between the subject and the body.)

    6. Press Ctrl + D to send.

    You can also put the text in file and send it as follows:

    ssmtp [email protected] < filename.txt
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  2. Most of the time you shouldn't need to configure an SMTP server you can simply use mail from the commandline (if it's not already present, install with sudo apt-get install mailutils). (Or if you're on a server where sendmail is configured, etc)

    marco@dagobah:~$ mail -v [email protected]
Subject: Hello World!
This is an email to myself.

Hope all is well.
.
Cc:

    You terminate messages with a single . on line. That's when mail will prompt you for Cc: enter the information (or leave blank) and mail will then print out additional information on what it is attempting to do, as well as detailing the processing of connecting, transmitting, and receiving data from the mail server.

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  3. apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl sendemail

    usage:

    sendemail -f [email protected] -t [email protected] -u subject -m "message" -s smtp.gmail.com:587 -o tls=yes -xu [email protected] -xp gmailpassword

    If you don't want to specify your password in the command line (generally not a good thing to do), you can omit that parameter and sendemail will prompt you for the password... and display it on the screen, but at least it won't be in your command line history.

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  4. Best Answer

    Try to install The Mutt E-mail Client. Other option is using emacs with gnus. Others options available too... IMHO, you should use more details in your questions, or several different answers to your question you will receive :-)

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  5. You need an MTA to send mail. For this, use postfix:

    sudo apt-get install postfix

    To send email:

    echo "test message" | mailx -s 'test subject' [email protected]

    HELP

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  6. mpack is excellent commandline way of sending file attachments.

    apt-get install mpack

    usage:

    mpack -s "file you wanted" ./data.pdf [email protected]
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  7. Install the package sendmail then type

    sendmail -t receiver@example

    then write your email then press Ctrl+D

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  8. mail -s "subjet" -a "attchedfile_name" someone@dest_email.com

    or

    cat "afile" | mail -s "subject" someone@dest_email.com
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  9. You can send an email from the command line with TelNet or NetCat.

    Everything is explained here.

    hanoo@hp_laptop% nc 127.0.0.1 25
220 hp_laptop.localdomain ESMTP Postfix
EHLO man
250 hp_laptop.localdomain
MAIL FROM: <[email protected]>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: <[email protected]>
250 2.1.5 Ok
data
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
This is the body of my mail,
this is the second line...
.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 9C12E7F404
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  10. If you try to send e-mail from a system, whitch does not run an own e-mail-server (i. e. desktop system), you need to install something like nullmailer or esmtp, which forward your local mail to a "real" mail server.

    As command line tools you can install mail or mailx (packages mailutils, heirloom-mailx or bsd-mailx). If you need attachments try biabam.

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