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The mail, Mail and mailx command line utilities

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I want to send the content of file.txt as the body and file.png as attachment. I only have mail cli (mail (GNU Mailutils) 3.10). No other software package can be installed, so Mutt is out of the ...
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I'm trying to send an email with an attachment using the command mail but neither option -a nor -A works. With -a: echo "Please, find attached the report" | mail -s "Report" -r &...
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How do we add email classification onto mail command on Linux? I'm currently using the following command: mail -s "$(echo - e " Test\From:abc\nContent-Type: text/html")" -S -smtp=&...
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I am trying to run a bash to send emails from my linux server. I am using the following command: echo "This is the message body" | mail -s "This is the subject line" -a "From: ...
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Install a simple SMTP client: sudo apt install msmtp msmtp-mda Set in msmtprc :: cat .msmtprc account default host smtp.qq.com from [email protected] auth on tls on tls_certcheck off user [email protected] ...
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#!/bin/bash df -m > myfile server_ip_address=$(ip addr show $(ip route | awk '/default/ { print $5 }') | grep "inet" | head -n 1 | awk '/inet/ {print $2}' | cut -d'/' -f1) if awk '$2 &...
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I'm trying to host a postfix mail server.I have a box with a fixed IP and also a mx record and spf record that link my box IP to my dns record. I can telnet to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25 but ...
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I've been using SSTMP on a local FreeBSD machine to send stuff like the output of certain cron jobs to my "real" main email account, which is not hosted on the same machine (or even domain). ...
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I try to see the raw data of a mail that I sent with mail -s "My Subject" [email protected]. Is it possible, if so, how? Expected output is similar to: From: "root" <root@example....
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I am trying to migrate a certain script from AIX to Linux and having issues with the mail functionality. The rest of the script works fine, but the mail function is sending encoded mails with no ...
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Does anybody on this planet know what the equivalent GNU mailutils command to the following looks like? Is this even possible without a local MTA with mailutils? Using s-nail it works as intended. s-...
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I have a shell script I want to email me when a particular command fails and send along the error message. Either it doesn't send an email at all, or it sends an email with an attachment named ...
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I am using the mail command from mailutils on Ubuntu Linux 20.04. I am using it to send documents automatically to a service on the web which processes them. They provide an email address to which you ...
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Explanation: I'm playing a little bit with a script this one helps notifying to user about SSL certificate expiration. If certificate has less than 30 days to expires, this will notify to user, if isn'...
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How to increase the width of listings in mail command prompt? Especially the message listing with the command h. The current listing is truncated at 80 characters as showing below: $ mail Mail [5.2 ...
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