Comments on: Linux mail command examples – send mails from command line

By: Moonwatcher

Moonwatcher — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 08:27:32 +0000

Aha! Maybe I understand? This not ’email’, but mail meaning a message sent to someone who works in the same workplace, for example? If this is the case it’s of no use to me at home — unless of couse I wish to send messages to myself!

Am I right?

By: Moonwatcher

Moonwatcher — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 05:30:02 +0000

Hi Silver Moon

Your article is beautifully explained, but the mail I sent never showed up. I checked: I did it the way you said.

I have had success (sending) with alpine, though I can’t understand most of that program!

Moonwatcher

By: Core Solutions

Core Solutions — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:52:59 +0000

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By: Angelo

Angelo — Sun, 10 May 2020 12:55:06 +0000

$ mail -s “This is the subject” somebody@example.com <<< "This is the message"

In the example above, using double quotes for the message, I can include $ variables. Now, can I somehow get down to the second line (an enter) in the body of the message?

Thank you.

By: Anatoly Rozhkov

Anatoly Rozhkov — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:29:51 +0000

In reply to Anatoly Rozhkov.

I’ve figured out how to fix it, and found that ssmtp may be interfering postfix
I’ve updated postfix and finally managed to send a message with end status 0, yet… it never arrived

By: Anatoly Rozhkov

Anatoly Rozhkov — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:04:12 +0000

cannot send message: Process exited with a non-zero status

why does this keep happening, I’ve tried like over 10 different walk-throughs on how to configure emails, and all of them have ended with this message

By: Arpit

Arpit — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:15:23 +0000

I am unable to send mail using sendmail to a particular email address(Distribution list). Please help me.
Server details:- Linux 2.6.32-754.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 22 17:25:23 EST 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Part of Code:-
email=abc@gmail.com
echo From: $FROM > $MAIL_FILE
echo Cc: $CC >> $MAIL_FILE
echo To: $TO >> $MAIL_FILE
echo Subject: “Notification: >> $MAIL_FILE
…
…
/usr/lib/sendmail -t < $MAIL_FILE

By: Ramya Somuri

Ramya Somuri — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:40:10 +0000

How to send an email to distribution list using mail?

By: mangapojke

mangapojke — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:46:17 +0000

Hi
Very nice article! try to mail all recipients from a text file “mail.list which look like that
pro@mail.com,part@email.com,lkp@party.com,gunmar@dungeos.com,blinkus@troll.com etc

and command:
M=”mail.list”
mail -s “monthly logs” “$M” < /var/log/monthly_check.log

By: rtt

rtt — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:31:33 +0000

Excellent article I don’t think I’ve seen one that is a comprehensive as this. Using the mail command is something I find helpful for shell scripting output reports for certain processes etc…
I’ve made a similar guide here and also gave your article here a link and credit: http://realtechtalk.com/mail_command_line_examples_of_how_to_send_an_email_using_Linux_Unix_and_the_Bash_Shell_or_Scripting-2021-articles

By: s gopi krishnan

s gopi krishnan — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:02:17 +0000

hi
I need to mail the below information, How to capture and send mail. kindly help
mail -s |”GG Daily Status Report” xxxxx@anc.com

GGSCI>info all
Manager Prgname Status Lag CHKPT
Extract EX_R01 Running 00:00:00 00 00:00:00

By: pavlos

pavlos — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 01:21:30 +0000

$ sudo apt install mutt

(installed)

$ echo “This is mutt from universe” | mutt -s “This is mutts subject” kairis@gmail.com
Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.).

Not working …

By: Abdifatah Ciilka

Abdifatah Ciilka — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 22:17:19 +0000

This article is perfect
I get more benefits thanks a lot…

By: selvakumar

selvakumar — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:49:31 +0000

Hey..I’ve ran multiple comment into single line..using &&. then i got 2 line output.

pwd && ls -altr | grep *INTD437*

when try to send mail of 2 line output..pwd && ls -l | grep *INT* | mail -s “file output” home@mail.com

I’m only getting 1st line output in the mail. Can you suggest on this.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:04:23 +0000

Regarding BCC and CC addresses when sending from a single line. I was trying to use the syntax above to send to CC and BCC addresses, but all the addresses ended up being in the To: field of the email. After reading documentation for GNU Mailutils, I found that you need to specify options first and then the address list.

$ mail [option…] [address…]

So instead of:
$ mail -s “Hello World” user1@example.com -c usertocc@example.com -b usertobcc@example.com

I had to do:
$ mail -s “Hello World” -c usertocc@example.com -b usertobcc@example.com user1@example.com

Hopefully this helps someone out in the future.

By: Dhathri

Dhathri — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:20:58 +0000

Is there any command to directly connect to mail from terminal

By: curious guy

curious guy — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 09:20:45 +0000

Hail Silver Moon, great article. Thanks!

I would like to make an addendum regarding the last topic you have written about attaching a file using the “mutt” tool:
For the reason of the “mailx” program being part of the POSIX Standard to server as a MUA, then I believe that the use of it would be more viable than the “mutt”. In addition, the [mailx] tool is not difficult to use. For more details: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/104833

By: Larry Sokoloski

Larry Sokoloski — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:29:39 +0000

Your article was exactly what I was looking for – great practical advice and examples!

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 09:02:57 +0000

In reply to Joel. Glad to hear that you found the post useful. Thanks for the comment.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 06:00:42 +0000

I found your article to be concise and VERY helpful, thanks! I was having troubles sending automated mail with a bash script from a cron job where I wanted a complex, all text, message. I am going to browse the rest of your site now to see what other nuggets of useful info you have!