Questions tagged [mailx]
mailx is a command-line utility for reading and sending email
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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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Handle dead.letter queue on mailx
I have mailx installed on a Linux server. It used to work perfectly.
From some reason, I had connectivy issue. So, all mail that tried to be sent went to the dead.letter file.
After resolving my ...
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Sending Table using Mailx
Following is the content of my file results.txt
VM Size
-- ----
ABC - DEV - WinS16 - PASSANGER-LH.XXX.local 0....
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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=$2
...
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How to install heirloom-mailx on Ubuntu 14.04
I want to install heirloom-mailx on Ubuntu 14.04
My current /etc/apt/sources.list reads like this:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/...
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Generating .XLS file as an output file of sqlplus query and sending that .XLS file as an attachment in email
I am generating output file (.xls format) from the below DB query-
sqlplus -S -L user/pass@DB <<EOF | sed '/^$/d' >> home/test/query_output.xls
set line 22000
set head off
set feedback ...
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Send an image in the body of the mail using any of the mail utilities in Linux
I am trying to send an email from Linux server, I want to send an image, not as an attachment, that should be displayed in the message body.
I tried.
mailx -s "TEST mail" <MASKED>@mask.com <...
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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 send a mail with attachment using sendmail command in unix
This is how I try to send, email with sendmail command.
echo "Dear user,
please find the attached file.
Thanks,
Support team " | mailx -s "x12 extract for 837 transaction" -a $LogFilePath/file.csv $...
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Why claws mail can receive email instead of mail command?
mail -f /var/mail/debian9
/var/mail/debian9: 0 messages
When mail -f /var/mail/debian9 executing ,the claws mail application is in off status.
Now open the /var/mail/debian9 with claws mail.
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How to search my email containing some string in email'content?
The mail command can list email messages stored on my pc.
How to search my email containing some string in email'content?
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Unattended upgrades won’t use mailx when run by Systemd
I have setup unattended-upgrades on servers running Raspbian (Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)). Version of Unattended-upgrades: 0.93.1+nmu1
Updates work, but I am having problems with the email ...
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Getting error while using -c option in mailx command
I'm running a script to send a mail with few lines. Requirement is I need to add few people in cc.
So I have created below scripts. For people who needs to be in TO and CC , I have created 2 ...
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Multiple html files in message body-mailx
I'm using pandas to get csv to html
#!/usr/bin/python
import pandas as pd
import sys
import json
sys.stdout = open('output.html','wt')
df = pd.read_csv('users.csv')
print(df.to_html())
For another ...
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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 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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How to send email attachment using mailx -a with a different attachment name?
We could do this using uuencode:
uuencode actual_file display_file_name | mailx testemail@org.com
Could you please advice how this can be done using mailx -a?
The only option seems to be to copy ...
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Forward email but change the FROM address
I have a postfix server running on an EC2 instance. I want to forward all email, via SES, to my personal inbox.
The problem: AWS only allows a FROM address that is verified in the AWS console and the ...
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mailx output in color format
I've a code which 'grep' certain strings from two files which I've defined as variables and if those strings are found then it'll send me the last 10 lines of the files using tail. I want the strings ...
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How to check the record count from text file for different source and mail it is record is not equal to 0
I have a select query which runs and generate the count. It exports the Answer in a text file which has below records eg.:
Unprocessed record for A Sources
----------------------Unprocessed ...
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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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Avoid bash script waiting for user enter the Enter key
I have the following entry in a bash script:
echo "Please see attached file" | mailx -S smtp=$smtpServer -s "Subject of the mail" -a $logfile -r "sender@domain.com" receiver1@domain.com receiver2@...
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Mailx replace from: address with name
How to replace sender address with his name using mailx command?
I was using following command but it was still giving mail address and not name :
echo test | mailx -r "Singh,Vivek <vivek.x....
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Using Mailx with Gmail
I've installed mailx, and when I try to send an email, like:
echo "Test" | mailx -r "foo@gmail.com" -s "Test" "bar@gmail.com"
It executes. But I don't receive the email. How do I set mailx up to ...
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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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How do I create a file name for my email attachment?
I'm using Amazon Linux and am creating a bash script. I'm tryhing to email an attachment and am having success with
(cat $TFILE1; uuencode $output_file $output_file) | mailx -s "$subject" "$to_email"...
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Unix--Send attachment, subject and body of the mail using mailx
Can you please tell me how to send the attachment, subject and body of the mail using mailx command.
I am using
uuencode travel$datestamp.XLS Travel$datestamp.XLS | mail -s "International Savers ...
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Cannot send email via postfix / dovecot error status=deferred (mail transport unavailable)
I am trying to setup a mail server with postfix/dovecot/maria DB on centos 7 and have seem to hit a roadblock.
I am not able to send emails to internal users and the logs suggest "mail transport ...
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Trouble sending email from the mail utility in Bash
I used the following command to send an email
echo "Body of the mail" | mail -s "subject" "something@gmail.com"
The first time I ran it, it returned an error saying the program mail is not installed....
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mail/mailx: How to specify recipents with full names?
Rich email clients allow users to be identified likewise:
John Smith <jsmith@example.com>
How can I use such format for recipients (or other email fields for that matter) with mail and/or ...
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Unable to send mails using mailx command
I tried sending an email using mailx as below:
echo "something" | mailx -v -s "subject" recipient@somewhere.com
For this I got the below response
"Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]".
I tried ...
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Replacing ^M with sed in a bash script [duplicate]
I'm running a script that SSHs into a server and then runs several commands. I then want to send these using the mail command. I run:
result=$(ssh user@host 'kinit -k -t /path/to/dir/`whoami`.`...
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Auth error when sending mail through Postfix with SSMTP
I'm trying to send mail from server A running SSMTP via a server B running Postfix. The Postfix server is running just fine and has been in production for a while without any problems. It runs Postfix ...
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How to make 'mail' command work properly via SSH?
When logged into my server via SSH the $ mail command doesn't work properly. Instead of returning the list of mail it returns No mail for <user>.
$ mail works correctly when on a terminal at ...
