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Mailx is a unix mail processing system that provides sending and receiving facility.

Mailx is an intelligent mail processing system, which has a command syntax reminiscent of ed(1) with lines replaced by messages.

Attachments, cc and bcc are well supported with mailx command.

References

  1. Unix manpage
  2. Some examples
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How can I send an email through the UNIX mailx command?

How can I send an email through the UNIX mailx command?
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How to set the From email address for mailx command?

I am working on a KornShell (ksh) script running on a Solaris server that will send out an email when and error condition is met. I am sending the email via mailx. Question: How do I set the "From" email address on the mailx command? Current…
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Mailx send html message

I want to send a html message with Mailx. When I try the following command mailx -s "Subject" user@gmail.com < email.html I get the content of email.html in plain text. In the message the header Content-Type is set to text/plain. The -a option…
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mutt command with multiple attachments in single mail unix

My requirement is to attach all the .csv files in a folder and send them in a single mail. Here is what have tried, mutt -s "subject" -a *.csv -- abc@gmail.com < subject.txt The above command is not working (It's not recognizing multiple files) and…
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Linux configuration -- ssmtp: Cannot open smtp.gmail.com:587

Hi I have RHEL5 with ssmtp installed on it ssmtp-2.61-22.el5.i386.rpm my /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf updated as below…
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Mailx and Gmail nss config dir

I am trying to send mail from a Linux command line using the mailx command. I can send from my local domain no problem but I want to set up mail to send from my Gmail account as well as receive mail sent to my Gmail account. After configuring my…
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linux mail < file.log has Content-Type: application/octet-stream (a noname attachment in Gmail)

I've been using mail -s "here is a log file" "person@example.com" < log/logfile.log Which used to come through with headers: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;…
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Sending simple message body + file attachment using Linux Mailx

I am writing a shell script to send an email using Linux Mailx, the email must contain a file attachment and a message body. Currently sending an email with an attachment: output.txt | mail -s "Daily Monitoring" james@dell.com I wish to add a…
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how to send an email via mailx with enclosed file

I need to sent a file via mailx or mail, but I wat to sent it as attachment not in the body message. Is there any way how to do it ? Eventually is there any other tool in solaris which can be used for such as procedure ? Thanks
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Sending email with CC BCC and sender's address in unix mailx

I want to send email from HP unix using mailx command. I have to include cc and bcc in my email and have to use the specific email address as the sender. But -r (which is to define the sender's email address) will disalbe ~ commands so if i have to…
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why does mailx ignore header fields?

I want to send an HTML email. have a plain text file that looks like this: From: "name" To: name@email.com Subject: First Email MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition:…
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Difference between mailx and sendmail?

What is the difference between mailx and sendmail? Which one is the most efficient(Performance standpoint) to send emails?
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Read lines from File in Bash and parse words into variables for mailx parameters

I have a bash script which reads lines from a text file with 4 columns(no headers). The number of lines can be a maximum of 4 lines or less. The words in each line are separated by SPACE character. ab@from.com xyz@to.com;abc@to.com Sub1 …
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mailx: "send-mail: illegal option -- a" while attempting to send file attachment

Our production server has been retired and now we are using a hosted system running Redhat GNU/Linux. We had many scripts using mutt to send file attachments but they're failing now since mutt is not installed on our servers (The sysadmin policy is…
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Parse mail's body using mailx and bash scripting

I am trying to automate certain part of my work using emails.Is there any method already available using mailx and bash which I can use to extract mail's body?
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