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How to send email from Mutt to John?
For example, You (as root) wants to read mails of user “ John “, you need to specify his mail file with “ -f” option with mutt command. You may also use “ -R ” option to open a mailbox in read-only mode. In this example, following command will send a test Email to [email protected].
How to use Mutt to read email from root?
For example, You (as root) wants to read mails of user “ John “, you need to specify his mail file with “ -f” option with mutt command. [ root@tecmint ~]# mutt -f /var/spool/mail/john You may also use “ -R ” option to open a mailbox in read-only mode. Send an email with mutt command
What does SMTP mean in the Mutt protocol?
In mutt, you use the protocol smtps to denote a connection that is secured from the beginning with TLS/SSL. If your mail server is expecting that (and many do these days), that could be your problem.
Where do I find the configuration file for Mutt?
User Configuration file of Mutt : If you want to set some specific configuration for a particular user for Mutt, you can configure those settings in ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc files. To read emails of the user with you are currently logged in, you just need to run “ mutt ” on the terminal, it will load the current user’s mailbox.
How to set text type in Mutt command?
When I try your command, mutt is telling me that content_type=text/html is an unknown command. So you have to use the “set” command to make this work: That worked in my tests. I tried with mutt 1.6d and that option -e “set content_type=text/html” doesn’t work for me. After search around i found below command line works for me:
How is the from header set in Mutt?
Normally, mutt sets the From: header based on the from configuration variable you set in ~/.muttrc: If this is not set, mutt uses the EMAIL environment variable by default. In which case, you can get away with calling mutt like this on the command line (as opposed to how you showed it in your comment):