hi guys.

i was wondering... is there a way you can set up mail, so that it functions as thunderbird? for example, in thunderbird, you could create a hotmail email account, and add a new account to thunderbird with your hotmail username, password and if i recall well, smtp and server port. if that is not possible, what do i have to do be able to send emails from console in general? i ve seen some guides online which i think they are deprecated or something, cause the steps they suggest dont actually correspond to what you really have to do. what would be the simplest way to send email from console?

thank you for your time

Apparently, the free version of hotmail does not enable POP3. You'd have to buy a premium version (not recommended) or change to some other email provider.
The easiest cli email client to configure eg. with gmail seems to be alpine.

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well i am actually more interested in being able to use mail command regardless of isps... i introduced hotmail as a mere example.

In that case you can try gmail. If you google 'alpine with gmail' you'll get a lot of tutorials.

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alpine seems really great indeed. but i m not willing to use gmail anymore. it asks for phone verification and this is a hell-no by me... do you happen to know any other isps that would be happy to work with alpine? sorry if i keep bothering you... :$

Probably most of them as long as they enable POP3 or IMAP. Pick one and check if it lets you enable any of the protocols.

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its ok. just made it sending emails with alpine from hotmail. thanks a lot for your help!

still, i would really like to know how can i use the mail command....

I can't help you with that. I've never worked with mail. Perhaps, someone else might be able to help here.

is there a way with alpine to send emails in just one command? i know mail does, but i cant figure it out, if this is possible in alpine. :^)

This for example will let you email the attachment file.txt to myemail@hotmail.co.uk

For some reason it requires authentication for your system host (ie. your linux user login & password)