Questions tagged [mailx]
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Cannot relay thru gmail using mailx and ssmpt on buster pi0. Works on stretch/jessie pi3B,+ using heirloom-mailx
raspberry pi0w with buster, mailx [mail-utils} and ssmtp pointed to gmail relay at smtp.gmail.com:587 [using 2FA key]
pi0w syslog shows successful connection
executing "mailx --debug-level=3 ........
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Ubuntu: How do i get the same version of mailx as everyone else?
Apparently there are multiple different versions of mailx. Among the numerous differenes is that all tutorials I can find state that you need the "-a" option to attach files, while my version of mailx ...
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Can I use sendmail instead of mailx in unattended-upgrades?
I've configured unattended-upgrades for apt to upgrade automatically and setup sendmail with a gmail account I made for it. Now I want unattended-upgrades to use sendmail to send me an email with the ...
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how to 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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Delete emails from specific source in mailx/BSD mail
I need to delete all emails from a specific source. I can list all of the emails with the f [email protected] but I'm having to dump it to something like awk and back into mail... or copy all of ...
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Can send an email using a bash script called by crontab but not by a Jenkins job
I installed and configured a mail client:
sudo apt-get install heirloom-mailx
sudo vi /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
mailhub=smtp.mail.yahoo.com:587
FromLineOverride=YES
[email protected]
AuthPass=...
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Get cronjob Email alert only on errors, not for other stdout?
I have a cron job that runs a script.sh file (Which takes the backup of DB), and sends me an email every hour. In script.sh file, I'm taking backup of few databases(.sql file), then creating .zip of ...
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Working with CSV file to send mail
I have a CSV file on a linux host, and it has 2 columns separated by commas:
1st column is email address and second column is corporate email address. The second column(corp email) could be one OR ...
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Linux - extract information from email and write to file
Using bash mailx or any other programs, would be a way to extract information from an email box and to write the specific information to a file?
Anyone has a clue about this, I have bunch of emails ...
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To print values in diferent line in mail body shell script
Below is the code to print contents of files present in the directory
File contents are :
apple
banana
grapes
mango
names=()
FILES=/path_to_dir/*
for f in $FILES
do
names+=($f)
done
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View list of messages in mail/mailx
Using mail (mailx), how does one refresh the list of messages, as it appears immediately upon starting the program? After I run a command to view a particular message, I cannot reload the list (except ...
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How can i set a default account in Heirloom-mailx?
How can i set a default account in Heirloom-mailx?
I have defined an account in /etc/nail.rc that is usable via mail -A accountname but i'd like to set this account to be used by default so i can ...
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cron table mailx caused empty content
I'm using centos 7.0/6.5. The content of /etc/cron.hourly/mail.cron
#!/bin/sh
log=/var/log/mail.cron.log
echo "`hostname` `date`" >> $log 2>&1
mailx -s "test mail" [email protected] < $...
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Mailx is is not working
I have been trying to send emails throw Linux using
echo "hi abhijeet2" | mailx -v Admin [email protected]
Whic works fine on other linux system ,but not working my system. I have tried to ...
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How to encrypt the mail in unix?
I want to encrypt the mail as that will be containing the confidential information. There are no attachments. Please help in providing the steps to encrypt the mail. I have got the reference of How ...
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Need to set mailx variable to specify the From address
Running Oracle Linux 5.8 (which is just re-branded RedHat EL 5.8) I must change the From address. But we have scripts that use mailx which cannot be re-written to use any extra flags, so I'd like to ...
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Sending email through Gmail with mailx gives error "Send options without primary recipient specified"
I am trying to send an email with a Bash script with my Gmail account using mailx. I have the following code in the script:
mailx -v -s "$SUBJECT"
-S smtp-use-starttls
-S ssl-verify=ignore
-S ...
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Sending text messages from Raspberry Pi via email fails
I'm using mailx on my raspberry pi to try to send text messages updates for event monitoring.
My phone number:9876543210
My phone's email-to-text gateway address: [email protected]
I can
Send ...
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Cron job outputs HTML; how to send mail as HTML
I have a cron job that if it fails outputs HTML. If it succeeds it outputs nothing, in which case I get no mail. If it does fail and write HTML, cron sends me the mail but it comes as plain text and ...
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sending mail from linux commad line
Is it possible to send mail from linux terminal to any gmail account.
If possible then what are the configuration are needed.
I tried with mailx and sendmail but its not working.
I also tried with ...
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How do you open mailx to read old mail when you have no new mail and view a list of old emails?
If you type mailx at the command line when you have new mail, it nicely shows you headers of your new mail and leaves you at a ? prompt where you can do mail commands. But if you don't have new mail ...
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mailx is not sending any mail
I'm new to super user and I am trying to teach myself how to code bash and work my way around the GNU/Linux operating system. I've become pretty comfortable with vim, emacs and some basic commands but ...
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mailx read attachments
Arch Linux x86
Heirloom mailx
From what I know, the mailx utility is supposed to read and send email. I somehow got it to work with sending and receiving mail with a gmail account, also using ...
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Does mailx send mail using an SMTP relay or does it directly connect to the target SMTP server?
Suppose i send a mail using the following the following command:
mailx [email protected]
then does mailx first try to find out the SMTP server of my ISP for relaying the mail or does it connect directly. ...
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Mailx doesn't send mail
I'm having issues sending mail on a Debian (Lenny) box using mailx.
root@deity:/# mail root
Subject: Hai
Hi, root!
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Cc:
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root@deity:/# mail
No mail for root
Does anyone have an idea what might ...
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