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nicoX
Asked: 2013-10-23 05:05:36 +0800 CST

Send mail from the terminal

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I need to send continuous mails, say one every minute, for testing purposes from a server running postfix. With the mail command I can manually do it, although there is no specific option to trigger it to auto send mails.

12.04

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  1. Best Answer

    I think the best way to do this is via a cron job. Type crontab -e in a terminal (you have to be root).

    And add a line with the following content:

    * * * * * /bin/echo "content" | /usr/bin/mail -s "subject" [email protected]

    And save the file. It will send every minute a mail. After that restart the cron daemon:

    service cron restart

    See cron for how to set other time scheduling.

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