mailx is a command-line utility for reading and sending email
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Removed Nylas N1 Mail client from terminal. But its data exist
I recently uninstalled Nylas N1 an open source Mail client from my Ubuntu 14.04.
I wanted to removed it completely (including data & Dependencies). So I ran following commands:
sudo apt-get purge ...
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Uuencode is displaying the file contents in email body instead of attaching the file in the attachments
I want to send a simple text file as an attachment in an email. When the email is delivered, the attachment is missing, instead, the contents of the attachments are displayed in the email body. Need ...
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Calling mailx from crond
I had a problem that gmail was blocking emails sent using mailx. I solved this by setting up an appropriate ~/.mailrc, which looks like:
set smtp-use-starttls
set nss-config-dir=/home/theuser/.certs
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Shell shows I have mail, but how can I check it
When I startup the shell, it displays the message You have mail. and this is because I touched a file /var/mail/${USER} and wrote to it.
But how can I check it? I use mail, but it shows me No mail ...
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How do I change FROM address using mailx on FreeBSD from command line?
I'm using following system:
$ uname -a
FreeBSD X 9.2-RELEASE-p17 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p17 #0 r282430: Mon May 4 13:59:58 PDT 2015 root@X:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/R610 amd64
$ pkg info mailx
mailx-0....
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What does the “pipe” command do in mailx?
When using the mailx command line utility, there is a command called pipe listed in the man page (although not visible when using the help command).
What does this command do?
I want to be able to ...
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Can't send mails with BCC using mailx “illegal option — b”
I'm trying to BCC e-mails through unix using the following command.
echo "E-mail message" | mailx -r [email protected] -s "E-mails Subject" ~b [email protected]
But I get the error ~b... ...
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mailx execute successfully but not sending mail out
I'm using mailx and sendmail functions to send mail from set of solaris machine with different versions. And the script send mail for most of the machine. Still issue is there on sending out mail for ...
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IPV4 supportive mail function in linux
I'm working on a linux machine where changes are not allowed. But While I use sendmail function I'm getting following error.
sendmail: warning: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address ...
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'agent-shell-lookup' does not work for mailx
I configured .mailrc as follows:
set smtp-use-starttls
set ssl-verify=ignore
set smtp=smtp://smtp.mail.com:587
set smtp-auth=login
set agent-shell-lookup-USER@HOST="gpg -d .password-store/smtp/smtp....
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can't send mail to domain prefixed username
How can I send mail to a local user with a domain prefixed username?
Running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.3 joined to an active directory domain with Heirloom mailx version 12.5 7/5/10
Scenario:
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Does postfix using mail command report if an email was unable to be sent to an address?
I am writing a program that will be sending external emails using postfix with the mail -s command and I need to verify that the email was sent to the specified address.
In which case, I am curious ...
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Strange error on exit mail from hpux
My HP-UX mailer works fine; I can reach machines and send emails
and also delete.
But on exit from mailx, after deleting messages, I get
rmmail: cannot unlink /var/mail/myuser
Why?
My permissions (...
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Executing command for sendmail not working
Good Day, I'm still new in Linux CLI and I'm using RHEL 6. I'm executing command for sending email via terminal.
$ cat log.txt | mail -s "Logs" [email protected]
Hosted by outlook365
When I try ...
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too many connection to SMTP server in exim_mainlog, How to solve it?
It is a cPanel server and from /var/log/exim_mainlog, I can see that, there are too many connections to the server. Mostly the number of action connection will be less than 25. But even after ...
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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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Sending HTML using mailx with postfix 2.6.6 and centOS 6.4 [duplicate]
I'm trying to send an HTML email from our CentOS server to users. In the long run I'll be building a COBOL program that runs the command to send reports to the user.
Here are a few details.
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Only send email if disk usages exceeds 80%
My script is:
abc=$(df -h | sed s/%//g | awk '{ if($5 > 80) print "Alert "$0;}' | awk '{print $2,$6}') \
&& echo -e "Dear All, \n\n$abc\n\nABC" \
| mailx -s "Disk partition" ...
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Control character handling in cron/mailx
I have a cron job which runs a long script producing lots of output. Some of the output is lines delimited by single carriage returns; when run from the command line, these make the successive lines ...
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How to extract date and calculate if it is within “x” days from today?
Currently I have file with structure as
Foo Sign: blah
SubFoo Sign: blah
BarDate: 2017-11-31
Foo Sign: blah
BarDate: Never
Foo Sign: blah
BarDate: 2016-12-20
Foo Sign: blah
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Linux - temporary mail file: Read-only file system [duplicate]
Being new to linux
On Linux Server; When i try to execute mailx
echo "Test Mail" | mailx -S smtp="ron.emaven.baya" -r "[email protected]" -s "Critical Issue**" -v "[email protected]"
I ...
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Can't send local mail message between users on linux
In http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/21336/99621 it says that if you do
echo 'body' | mail -s 'subject' myuser
It will send a mail message to the myuser linux account on the local system that this ...
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Saving attachment from mail
I am using this command to send email with attachment and message body:
echo "Message body" | mail -s "Temat" -a myFile student7
And this is how I try to extract this file (inside mail):
? s file
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use 'mail' to read email from command line
I know we can use mail command in terminal to start using the mail program in interactive mode.
However, I want to read the email using mail command non-interactively.
Is there a command like
$ ...
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Mail from another server
On my development UNIX server mail server is not installed. I want to mail a file everyday which I create on development server.
Now I am doing it manually by copying file to another UNIX server ...
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how to set Internal Variables in mailx in linux?
save internal variable enable saving of messages in the dead.letter file on interrupt or delivery error.The default is save.
problem: default is save so dead.letter file is created at home directory,
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dead.letter issue on Linux?
I am sending mail to a list of users, using the mailx utility:
mailx -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" < $FILE
It is working fine with valid emails, but I am getting a dead.letter issue when I try to send ...
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mailx cannot send mail through gmail any more?
mailx -v -r "${USER}@gmail.com" -s "This is the subject" -S smtp="smtps://smtp.gmail.com:587" -S smtp-use-starttls -S ssl-verify=ignore -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp-auth-user="${USER}@gmail.com" ${USER}...
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Can I specify a command line recipient using bsd-mailx and Debian 8?
I usually configure exim4 and bsd-mailx to send mail, via GMail or Google Apps, on my Debian machines. I use a very simple mail sent by smarthost; no local mail Exim configuration. I've always ...
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Installing mailx on ubuntu 14.04.2
So I've installed mailx but I'm unable to get it to send an e-mail. I do the following:
mailx -s "Test"
To: [email protected]
Cc:
"This is a test."
CTRL-D (does not work)
CTRL-D does nothing. It's ...
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How to set mail subject using variable and ensure attachment is not included in email body
I have the following shell script fragment.
var_name='ZZPCI'
for emailadd in `cat /tmp/email_list.tmp`
do
subject_text="Subject with Var Name "$var_name
subj_text_novar="Subject without Var ...
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Mailx command help in UNIX [duplicate]
Please advise how to send body content template to DL groups using MAILX command.
Ex:- Whenever process is down,i need to send to email with body content to all the DL groups.
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Unable to send email using mailx in Light ubuntu vmware
I am getting the following error while trying to send an email using mailx
command used:
uuencode Final_report.html $(date +"%Y-%m-%d")_report.html |mailx -s "Test of monthly report from ${HOSTNAME}"...
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Using mailx without storing a password
I'm trying to setup mailx to use my Gmail account. I've found a configuration that can send mail successfully but it requires me to store my email password in a configuration file in my home directory....
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Using an ASCII file in mailx
I have a ASCII file with Unix user names. How can I mail this list to everyone on the list itself? I do not want to use an alias. I was trying to cat the file to a mailx string but it was not working.
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root can't send mail (apticron) but user can (mail/mailx)
I'm running Debian
I've set up ssmtp as my MTA and this works perfectly
I can send mail using both mail and mailx with a standard user account
BUT... When I run sudo apticron I get:
send-mail: RCPT ...
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check “newness” / “is-read” of /var/spool/mail/$USER like pam_mail for custom motd script
How can I check with bash or python (preferred) if there are some unread mails in /var/spool/mail/$USER like pam_mail does?
I'd like to use this for my own custom motd script, motd.dynamic
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Modify date in email header using script with mailx
I am trying to modify a script which grabs data from a database and puts it into the message of an email which is then sent out using mailx. What I need to do is grab the date which is in the first ...
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What mail variable is needed to make sure I receive a copy as well when emailing an alias
The alias includes a list of addresses and includes mine as well what mail variable do I need to make sure I still receive a copy of the message as well?
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exim4 on debian 7.8 sent mail never arrives @gmail
I followed the instruction on this page Debian Exim and configured my exim with a single file via the dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config setup.
Now I can send mails between local users (from root to ...
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Can I resend a message with (plain) mailx?
Say I receive a message with an attachment, and all I want to do is to resend this message to another address. Is it possible to do this using plain mailx? If so, how? I know Heirloom mailx has a ...
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How to display entire subject line in `mail`?
There are two messages in /var/mail/test.
mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/test": 2 messages 2 new
>N 1 test@test Tue Feb 17 15:07 18/628 *** SECURITY ...
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How to send an email using mailx so that From and To appear correctly in the email?
I need to send an email from my Ubuntu 12.04 machine. I am using mailx command to do that. Below is the command I am using which works fine.
echo "Test server started at `date +"%F %T"` on `hostname -...
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Mailx with multiple uuencode attachments and body
I am sending multiple files using following line in my script
find . -type f -name "Sum*pdf*"|while read name; do uuencode "$name" "${name##*/}"; done | mailx -s "North Bus Correction" $RECIP
Now I ...
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Why do I get mail when I unplug my adapter?
Usually I only get the terminal output You have new mail in /var/mail/$USER after running certain upgrades but I've started getting it every couple days after running other commands, seemingly at ...
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Show the content of a file in the mail body
I am writing a script where it shows the content of file in the body of the mail. But i am getting error while I am executing it.
RECIP="[email protected]"
lines=`wc -l $HOME/totals`
if [ $lines == 6 ];...
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Is there any way to check email sent success acknowledgement?
I need to send the generated CSV files on regular intervals using script. I am using UUENCODE and mailx for the same.
But i need to know that is there any method/way to know that email sent ...
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can i get imap access using just postfix and mailx?
I have postfix and mailx installed on a CentOS 7 server. I am able to send and receive email from the command line using the mailx command. I am also able to read email in each user's inbox using ...
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Why does uninstalling sendmail install exim, and uninstalling exim installs xmail?
I just set up a VPS with Debian 7 x64, and removed Sendmail along with some other programs. When it removed Sendmail, it also installed Exim. When I removed Exim, it installed xmail.
Is there any ...
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What is the maximum size for attachment using unix mailx
I am using RHEL 6.4. I have a script which runs in bash. The script sends an email using:
mailx -a report.txt "Monthly Report" "[email protected]" < messageBody.html
where report.txt is a pipe ...
