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Sending a file as the body of an email

I want a utility that does something like this: email --subject="xxx" --body=body.txt --to=to_address@hostname.com (using pre-configured sender information for e.g. gmail). Note that body.txt is ...
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Creating a list of unique senders from Thunderbird mail files through the command-line

I've got some large mailboxes and using Thunderbird, that means that I have several mbox files. These single files contain all e-mails in a particular folder. Now, I would like to get some data on the ...
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Sending HTML with Mutt (or another terminal mail client)

While I can find some scattered info on the topic, I can't seem to find a straight walkthrough (or even a definite answer)... Basically I'm too low on the totem pole to start sending plain-text ...
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Is there a command-line email client and auto-download attachment to a file?

Is there a linux email client that can run on command line and can be configured to fetch and automatically save attachments to the filesystem? Im currently using Thunderbird and it has a nice ...
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How can I automate sending mail using a script?

I have in the past heard of using nail for this task, but I can't seem to find it for my distribution (Ubuntu 11.04) in any of the repositories. What program can I use to one-off emails from a shell ...
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alpine failed to connect to smtp.gmail.com

When I try to send email from alpine I get the following error: Error sending: connection failed to gmail-smtp... (The message disappear before I have the time to copy it). I suspect this is ...
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using the mail command

How do I use the mail command to check email (and send email) from gmail. Does it support labels? I couldn't have figure out where to put the username and password. I tried to search for instruction ...
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What program do I use to check mail?

I'm receiving "You have mail" messages and according to How to remove “You have mail” welcome message I should read my mail with mail. However I cannot find the command in my system (Ubuntu 10.04 ...