Questions tagged [mail-command]
The mail, Mail and mailx command line utilities
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How to use emojis on the subject line of mail?
I am writing a shell script to setup a few servers and once it is done, it will send an email to our help desk letting us know that the server is ready to be used.
I would like to use the following ...
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mail command sends empty body if file attached
Whenever I attach a file to mail like:
$ mail -A attachment.pdf -s"Subject" id@domain.com
Cc:
This body never gets sent.
And hit Ctrl+d to send the mail. The attachment and the subject get sent, but ...
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18.04.1-Ubuntu: Mail command unable to set mail body with attachment
I am trying to use mail command to send 2 attachments. The issue which i am facing is unable to send attachment and mail body content. tried following command
echo "Hello World" | mail -s 'Test Email'...
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How to monitor system with `snort` and send emails about `alerts`
PROBLEM:
I have been configuring snort on my systems and would like to get emails from the systems if there are any alerts.
What I have tried is swatch but I can't find much documentation on it, can ...
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How do I pass a script argument to a pipelined argument?
I have the following code and I wanted the argument to -s to include the first argument of my bash script. Currently it prints "$1" verbatim for subject though the message body has $1 evaluated ...
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Create a script to check the date, time and string and trigger a mail
Need to create a script where
I want to take the last few lines of the log file and check that the last line with Start Date contains the date of today and the time 17:00:xx and is followed by xxxxx ...
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Sending two text files with mail command - No -a support [duplicate]
I searched but did not find this answer. I am running an old RedHat 5.3 system on one server (working on upgrade to 7 in progress) but I want to send 2 text files using the mail command. I do this all ...
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-c and -b options not working in mailx in ubuntu
I was trying to send a mail from the shell script using the command
mailx -s "TEST MAIL" -c "user_name ..." user<message.txt
but it generates an error as unrecognized option -c ,the same happens ...
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usr/lib/sendmail doesn't work
On one of our company server, suddenly /usr/lib/sendmail stopped working.
We have a call to it in few scripts (owned and ran by oracle user) and none of them is able to send an email out, even ...
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how to send lines/messages to maillog file [closed]
under /var/log , we can see the following maillog files
-rw------- 1 root root 11733421 Aug 5 03:47 maillog-20180805
-rw------- 1 root root 15566137 Aug 13 03:16 maillog-...
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how to read postfix mail from command line
I have setup postfix server and set home_mailbox = Mail/. How to make mail read mail from ~/Mail/. I tried ln -s ~/Mail /var/mail/$USER but mail complains Cannot open mailbox /var/mail/$USER: Is a ...
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Does /usr/bin/mail have a queue?
RHEL 5
I'm using a perl service monitoring script (written by a colleague that is no longer with the company) running on an old RHEL 5 box. If a service is down, it sends an email alert to the root ...
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How to send mails using SMTP server in Linux without error
I'm trying to send mail via SMTP server. And set /etc/mail.rc file with:
set bsdcompat
set smtp=smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=user@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=...
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Ways to add recipients in mailx
What options do I have for adding recipients to email when using mailx (or variations thereof)? The ones I know about are:
Manually type email address character by character from memory
Enter an ...
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How to retain retain et. al. in mail(x)
When entering personal preferences like retain me@example.com inside command line mail, how can I have these saved so they are reloaded the next time I start mail?
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How to receive new email?
mail -f /home/debian9/Maildir
When new email coming,how to receive it in mailutils interface?
There are 1 email in my /home/debian9/Maildir.
Sent an email from admin to debian9 with command:
echo "...
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mutt is changing the content in body
I have a text file with multiple lines in content . But when I am sending it in mail all the lines are coming in one line in email as part of body of mail.
But when I insert empty line in content ...
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sendmail with html and file content
I need to send contents of a file in an email and add some html note at the beginning and ending of the file. I have used "sendmail" for the purpose, however when I receive the email I do not see the ...
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Cause Code Not Implemented for Heirloom-Mailx
I am attempting to send an message with an attachment from my RP3 to my phone, which uses Sprint. I have Exim4 setup as a MTA and the Heirloom-MailX configured so I can send an attachment. I am using ...
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How to get response from mail command
I am trying to send the send email using the mail command as
mail -s "subject" email_address < email_text
but how will I confirm whether email is actually sent or not ( i.e. email_address is ...
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how can I tell the mail command the path to sendmail?
I would the mail command to use a program other than /usr/sbin/sendmail.
e.g.
$ mail --path=/usr/local/bin/mysendmail someone@somewhere.com
How can I do this?
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How to check whether I can send mail from my Linux server?
When I tried using mail or mailx with -r -s -a and other options, I am not able to send mail. Is there anything I need to check before sending mail from Linux server?
When I tried to see help for ...
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HTML email from heirloom mailx on linux
I've been trying to work through sending a html email from mailx on a linux server.
Few Notes:
I have to specify a smtp server so therefore I cannot use sendmail
(This is not something I can change ...
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Send raw message with mailx command
How can I pass a full raw/MIME message (raw file) to the Linux mailx command for delivery? I don't want to extract the recipient, subject, body etc from the message - I want to feed a complete ...
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Local mail delivery affected by method of root login
I just sent a local mail using the following syntax:
echo "Testing" | mail -s "This is just a test" root@localhost
Then I log into root using:
sudo -i
And check my mail. The message is there.
If I ...
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Perl script to format .xls file in Linux [closed]
All I have is a linux command (I don't know what's behind the command, the script or what formats the command output), so what I can do is to pull the data [which is in table form with invisible ...
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Trouble sending email from the mail utility in Bash
I used the following command to send an email
echo "Body of the mail" | mail -s "subject" "something@gmail.com"
The first time I ran it, it returned an error saying the program mail is not installed....
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mail/mailx: How to specify recipents with full names?
Rich email clients allow users to be identified likewise:
John Smith <jsmith@example.com>
How can I use such format for recipients (or other email fields for that matter) with mail and/or ...
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Can't send mail via sendmail
I'm trying send mail via sendmail, but mail is not received. Here is the command:
/bin/cat /scripts/zabbix/test.txt | mail -v -s "Blocked IPs" example@example.com
Here is the output
example@example....
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Delete Mail Based on Subject Pattern [mail-command]
Is it possible to delete all mail in which the subject matches a regex pattern?
For example, to delete message 1, you do:
d 1
But to delete all mail with subject starting with, say, [SPAM], I can't ...
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How can I list the messages in my mailbox?
Using the mail command it shows the messages I have and drops me into a prompt, but I cannot figure how to list the messages. Here is the help screen for mail:
Mail Command ...
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How to clear old mail in Linux?
I want to clear the Linux mail for my account every day at 10pm. How can I accomplish it?
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sending alerts from linux machine through email to MS outlook exchange
I Have a Scenario. I have written a shell script who check the space of mount point '/u06'. if free space is greater then 20% then its OK or if free space is less then 20% then it should generate a ...
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How can I automatically forward system mail?
I have a system job that fails and sensd me mail that I can read with the mail command. That means I still need to login to the mail server to get the emails and read them. The server supports sending ...
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What should I configure to send mail on the command line?
I am working in the computer at home I want to send me an email and I tried:
uuencode all.sh all.sh | mail mymail@gmail.com
But the problem is that nothing arrive to my email, I just get the ...
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SSMTP - Can send E-Mail via CLI - But Programs fail to send notifications
Today I set up a new XYMon monitor VM. The old one used PostFix, but I set up SSMTP.
I can e-mail myself fine from the CLI like such.
echo "Hello, World" | mail -s "My email check" my@email.com
But ...
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Mail one liner to check if null before sending [duplicate]
I'm trying to modify a script which emails a user group the contents of a directory. The modification I'm looking for is to check the script below to see if it has valid output before sending.
The ...
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Postfix forwarding using virtual settings
I have gone over multiple articles which walk me through the process - I feel I understand the what and the why's - but I cannot send a email to test.
Here are the steps in detail.
Here is a ...
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How to pipe a cat output to stdin? [closed]
C++ -------> g++ -------> bash :
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
int main(){
system("mail -s test_mail xxxx@testdomain.com");
system("test msg");
system(".");
return ...
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Native sendmail commands to operate the mail queue?
I'm on a CentOS 7 server that runs sendmail and unfortunately I'm not allowed to install new packages. Postfix tools are not installed; AFAIK the only tool available is mailq, that permits only to see ...
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Checking for mails
I recently started using mails via UNIX.
I would like to create a script , that would write (every time I log in ) something like
"The content of your mailbox has changed since last checkup"
or
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How would you build a cron that empties the mail in all mailboxes?
I am new to Unix here.
We have some mailboxes that are taking up an incredible amount of space and I'm trying to figure out a way to delete all mail that has been in the box for 30 days. Most of what ...
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mbox still shows mail messages after they have been deleted
I deleted all messages from my mail with mailx d MSGS, and now mailx shows no mail.
But why does cat ~/mbox still show all of the supposedly deleted messages?
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Trying to direct variable contents into command gives Ambigious Redirect
I'm trying to write a script which tests the http response from various Node servers I have running and which then emails me if any respond with a 502 error from Nginx (meaning one or more server has ...
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Script not running! Also how to attach timestamp in mail?
I have the following bash script...
#!/bin/bash
# Delete JUNK temp folder
if [ -d JUNK/FOLDER/PATH ]
then
rm -rf JUNK/FOLDER/PATH
echo "Cleansed JUNK directory successfully!"
/usr/bin/mail -s ...
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Executing mail command from inside a function causes a “fork bomb”
When I try to execute mail from inside a function in a bash script it creates something similar to a fork bomb. To clarify, this creates the issue:
#!/bin/bash
mail() {
echo "Free of oxens" | ...
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`mail` command - How can I display the email list again?
When using the mail command, I automatically get the list of the emails received:
user@server:~ $ mail
"/var/mail/user": 4 messages 4 unread
>U 1 mail1 Tue Dec 17 13:13 18/628 junk_mail
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Trying to send multiple text attachments via mail message
Running this script on: "Red Had Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga)"
Mail is: version 8.1 6/6/93 (appears quite old).
Have tried various things and cannot seem to get this to work..
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How do I open mail using vim?
I scheduled a task using at. The output of the scheduled job was sent to mail. But the output is quite huge; I prefer reading it in a text editor.
Additionally, I don't want to forward the mail, I ...
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sending multiple attachment using uuencode
I want to send multiple CSV file using below code. In Result folder, we have multiple CSV files. However, I want to catch only Summary CSV files.
I was trying using *, % with different combination. ...
