Questions tagged [mailx]
mailx is a command-line utility for reading and sending email
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How to use s-nail with unattended-upgrades?
My ISP blocks port 25 and I want to send email after unattended-upgrades completes. I set things up so that I can successfully send mail with s-nail, but unattended-upgrades still isn't sending me ...
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Install mailx on CentOS 9
I can't install mailx on CentOS 9.
yum install mailx -y
Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:13 ago on Sat 09 Apr 2022 07:55:59 PM UTC.
No match for argument: mailx
Error: Unable to find a match: ...
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How to avoid the "pager" in mailx?
Having many short mail messages in my inbox, it's quite annoying that even short messages are sent though a pager (less), requiring to press 'q' before I can view the next message (for example).
I ...
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How to run a few commands and have the output emailed once a day?
new person here.
I would like to run uptime and bdf and have the output emailed to me.
I have the mailx part down-
/usr/bin/mailx -s "daily_update" someguy@thisplace.com </home/...
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rename attachments using mailx command without uuencode
earlier I was using system("(echo \"demo attachment\"; uuencode demo.txt rename.txt )| mailx -r ${mail_from} -s \"${subject}\" ${emailids}"); this to send attachments ...
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Mail sender address is not getting updated
I'm trying to send email, but I constantly get wrong sender email address.
OS details:
NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME=&...
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Function call with stdin or /dev/null if empty
I'm trying to make a Bash function like this:
function send_email {
local DEFAULT_EMAIL='Something@Somplace.com'
local email_subject="${1:-No subject line set, please check $0 on $(hostname -...
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How to send a mail with mail x to many users and the don't see the other users in copy
How to send an email to several users without these people seeing the other users in copy. I used the command:
mail -a 'Content-Type: text / html' -s "Subject" -r "expeditor@domain.com&...
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mail: How do I mark an email as unread?
I am using mail from GNU Mailutils to read the contents of a Maildir. For emails that have already been marked as read, is there a way to mark them as unread in mail?
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Aix: why program mail ignore the mbox setting?
On AIX, I want the mail program to use /root/.mbox instead of default /root/mbox.
I edit mailrc
vim .mailrc
set MBOX=/root/.mbox
the result is not good
mail
Mail [5.2 UCB] [AIX 5.X] Type ? for help.
&...
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connection to blacklisted host DNSBL
I’m trying to build a mail server, but when I tried to check the if TCP Port 25 (outbound) is blocked or not
I got the following
root@mail:~# telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google .com 25
Trying 74.125.71.27…
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Issue detecting running processes from shell script
Script:
#!/bin/bash
kafka=`ps -ef | grep 'kafka' | grep -v grep | wc -l`
echo $kafka
if [ $kafka<3 ]
then
echo "Hi Support Team,
Kafka is down on QA/Dev server $hostname .Please take ...
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Increasing the width of messages listing in mail prompt
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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Unable to send out emails from my Linux Host
Unable to send out emails from my Linux Host. Below is the command I try:
echo "This is the message body and contains the message" | sudo mailx -v mypunnq@gmail.com -s "This is the ...
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How to properly use mailx to attach a file (not replace content)?
I am using
$ mailx -V
mailx (GNU Mailutils) 3.5
Copyright (C) 2007-2017 Free Software Foundation, inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free ...
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SMTP Server Mail Alerts using TLS and authentication
i am a bit new in using SMTP server Alert configurations on AIX 7.1 OS . i am currently using below syntax which is running fine :
mail -s "Subject" "abc@test.com" < /path/to/my/...
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Discriminating between log entries' timestamps from bash script
My Bash script executes as a cron job. It seeks a string within a log file and is supposed to forward the corresponding log entry by mail if found.
My script works but floods me with already reported ...
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Sendmail Service Issue: "rejecting new messages: min free: 100"
For a test email with the following command
(echo "Hi") | mailx -v -r from@something.com -s "Subject Test" -c cc@something.com to@something.com
I get the following output in a ...
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What is the difference between sending carbon copies of mail message to other users and sending mail to multiple users at the same time
In Unix, the -c option in mailx command sends copy of message to other people and has the following syntax:
mailx -s "Subject" -c "jpm,sumit" charlie < message.txt
where jpm ...
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How to send email on linux with HTML content AND attachment?
I have Oracle Linux server 7.8, on which I am trying to explore programs which be used for emailing HTML content and also send an attachment. Let say I am in my home directory and i have the following ...
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Mailx or mail command is not including the body when triggered via crontab
I created a script that checks the process of apache server and sends an email if the process is down.
apache_down=`service httpd status | grep "inactive (dead)"`
echo “$apache_down" | mailx -s “...
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MBSync Maildir++ to IMAP with subfolder in INBOX
I am trying to use MBSync to sync a local Maildir++ folder (dovecot mail data) into a remote IMAP mailbox. While it works in general, subdirs of INBOX are ignored.
Config looks like this:
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I want to send one of the zip folder which consisit of 8 to 10 files, attaching via e-mail using Linux command
I tried with this command but no luck.
echo 'These are contents of my mail' | mailx -s 'This is my email subject' -a /home/user/Desktop/data.zip mail_id@example.com
Any suggestion?
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How do I make .xls Or .pdf appear in body of email?
I know how to attach PDF or XLS file to email as an attachment using Unix commands. I would like to know how to send these reports to email body, so that users can access it quickly, instead of extra ...
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Problem with sending Unix mail from home (because of Spamhaus block list?) [duplicate]
I have a script that sends a simple email at the end.
When running it while my laptop is inside my university'e network, everything works just fine.
However, when I send an email from home using a ...
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Attaching multiple files using bash and emailing it out using SWAKS or another program
I'm trying to:
Attach multiple files into one email.
Have the email sent out using a Gmail account with the current date and time in the subject header.
I'm having trouble with the for a loop ...
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How to read mail using terminal?
I've set up my my smtp server using ssmtp which I set up as default. So now I can send emails using mail and I'm receiving them(checked on my phone), but I can't read them using mail, or by cat /var/...
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Unknown keyword `smtp-auth' when using --set=smtp-auth=login
I use a bash script to make some process, then send me a mail report. This works fine when I use a local postfix configuration, but this not works with smtp auth and I got the error «smtp-auth unknown»...
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Mailx command attachment style is different between platforms
On a virtual ubuntu box the mailx command has -a refers to the content headers and -f adds attachments. Whereas on my school's virtual machines (I think they run centOS) -a adds attachments.
I tried ...
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how can we send an image in the body of the mail using any of the mail utilities in Linux
How can we send an image in the body of a mail with rich text / HTML.
I tried to get from few of the links , but i am not able to get complete solution. I tried below code but no luck
mpack -s "...
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Unix command to send mail having subject from a variable
We have created a UNIX program which is used to send mails. In that program we are fetching the mail subject and body based on user inputs (through Oracle Concurrent Program)
For example:
The ...
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How can I read one message at a time from /var/mail
Lets say I have 5 messages in /var/mail/ and I want to read one message at a time and then do some string search in that mail before moving on to the next message. Is there a command that I can use to ...
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Install Postfix using Mailutils on Ubuntu 19.04 server for sending out mail only
I followed this tutorial: https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-and-configure-postfix-as-a-send-only-smtp-server-on-ubuntu-18-04-lts/
I'm trying to setup a send only mail from my Ubuntu 19 ...
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Cron is not logging stderr in /var/mail/user
I have this user who have a lot of cron jobs and I expected it to log stderr in its /var/mail/user. Sample below cron entry is working as expected in a different server.
* 30 * * * * /usr/local/bin/...
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Mails not going through with "Host not found" error
Mails are not going through from my postfix mail server and it is failing with below error
Jun 21 07:53:23 node-002 postfix/error[23121]: 06899101C478: to=<blas@example.com>, relay=none, ...
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Debian mailx won't attach files to emails
(Note: I have seen this question, but it does not work for me)
I am attempting to send an email with an attachment using Bash on Debian Stretch, using the mailx package (not mutt). My implementation ...
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mailx execution as non-root failing
I am running Oracle Linux 7 for the purpose of hosting an Oracle database.
As part of this process I run a script that mails a log file at the end on a daily basis.
Crux of my issue is that my ...
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How to fix "Account starting with zero"
Because this company uses Centrify, I made a local Oracle account starting with zero on another server so as not to conflict with the original.
No problem except when my scripts email me I get:
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Compose a path from a file name. Send file through email
I want to send to my e mail account a mail with log from program execution. This file changes everyday and it's named like this
log-20190703.gz
My attempt:
#!/bin/bash
log_file=logs-$(date +"%Y%m%d"...
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Linux Mailx is creating a dead.letter and not sending email [closed]
I am having issues with sending emails from my Redhat6 linux server. Each type of mailing command sendmail/mailx creates a dead.letter in the users home directory.
Examples of how I am sending ...
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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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Why does mailx see 0 messages in my mbox file?
I have an MBOX file created by dragging a folder from Outlook (For Mac v.16) into Finder (because the Export wizard in Outlook For Mac only generates OLM files).
I can look at the MBOX contents as ...
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Trouble Sending file content in the mail body with mailx
I need to send an email using the mailx command. I am clear that the command would be the following by example:
echo "Body message" | mailx -s "Sending mail with Mailx" -r "abc@mail.com" "abc@mail....
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Ubuntu 18.04: Error with mailx smtp - mailx: unrecognized option "-S'"?
I was trying to send an email to multiple persons using mailx (mailx (GNU Mailutils) 3.4). I did that successfully on a previous version of Ubuntu, v16.04, and the script was working fine. Now I have ...
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how to debug what's wrong with mailx
I'm trying to see what happening why my mailx is failing. I tried to run the mailx command locally with a debug flag but it just returns a empty carriage return.
Once it showed me this error.
SSL/...
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changes to /etc/mail.rc does not seem to take effect
there were some changes with our smtps server, specifically the port that we can use.
as I have done before, I changed the details in /etc/mail.rc file.
but when I run my script, there is a log in /...
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How can I save the result of mailx command in unix to read mails to a text file?
I want to save the unread mails to a text file in UNIX using a shell script. This shell script is executed frequently using crontab.
I have tried with the below code:
#!/bin/ksh
mailx > mytest....
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Mail command using for loop not reliable?
I have a test email account environment that I'm trying to fill with emails before running migrating tests. I've been trying to achieve this with the following bash script:
for i in {1..1000}; do
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send email from terminal bad behaviour
I have the following script that i put togheter from the web, to send emails from terminal trough gmail.
#!/bin/bash
#sendGmail "FROM" "TO" "SUBJECT" "BODY" "ATTACHMENTS (optional)"
FROM=$1
TO=$2
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How to install heirloom-mailx on Ubuntu 14.04
I want to install heirloom-mailx on Ubuntu 14.04
My current /etc/apt/sources.list reads like this:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/...
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