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How do I send the body of an email in Linux?
Sending email from Linux using mailx If you just want to send a simple email e.g. without attachment, you can simply use the mailx command to do that. This will send an email with the subject as “test” to recipient [email protected]. Once you type this command it will ask you to type the content in the body.
How do I email a mutt?
Send an email with mutt command
- Change recipient email address pressing t.
- Change Cc address with c.
- Attach files as attachments with a.
- Quit from the interface with q.
- Send that email by pressing y.
Does Mutt use postfix?
Mutt has mail-transport-agent as a dependency which means if you don’t have a Mail Transport Agent installed on your system and you install Mutt an MTA will also be installed, Postfix being the default.
Where is Mutt configuration file?
1. The configuration file for mutt is located at each users home directory as ~/. muttrc.
How to send email from Linux command line?
But here is a short how-to with sendmail. Email messages, like web pages, have their content type specified in the headers. ‘mail’ seems to predate this and doesn’t send any, and so all MUAs fall back to displaying the message as text/plain. If you want to specify all headers manually, call sendmail [email protected] and pass everything to it.
Is there a way to transfer emails from Linux to SMTP?
This is a nice little tool we just configured for mail delivery. As its man page suggests, it’s a minimalistic emulator of sendmail. As such, SSMTP allows users to transfer emails through an SMTP server from the Linux command line. It provides the means to connect to a mailhub with a proper configuration file.
How to send an email with ssmtp command?
Following the ssmtp command, you should put the recipient address, then you can include a file that will show in the email body. Here you can define headers for the message, list further recipients and set the content type. This way you can send HTML emails. SSMTP will interpret your message and use the provided values properly.
Which is the best command to send email?
For quite some time now sendmail is the classical mail transfer agent from the world of UNIX. It was first introduced in 1979 and its highly-configurable nature and scalability made it the default go-to for server administrators. We’ve already seen how to send basic emails by the ssmtp command, so let’s see the difference using sendmail: