How to send email from the command line?

[der.hans]

Am 12. Jan, 2007 schwätzte Josef Lowder so:

> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:30:31 -0700, Dan Lund wrote
>> On 1/12/07, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>> I'm still trying to figure out how to send plain text
>>> email messages from the command line.
>>> What would be the simplest way to do this?
>
>> With the mail command.  Such as:
>>
>> Echo "hello" | mail -s subjectline destination at mail.com

Yup, mail or mailx is the way to go.

> However, I found my previous notes on this subject and
> now recall that some suggested that 'postfix' would be
> better (and safer) to use than 'sendmail'
>
> Is that correct?  And if so, how do I acquire and install it?

Depends on your distribution. Hopefully you've got apt-get, aptitude or
yum setup.

The install should ask you a couple of questions and set it up for you.

The regular install should be able to handle a simple setup, which is
likely all you need.

ciao,

der.hans
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