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05-27-2005, 05:14 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Norway
Distribution: FC5
Posts: 27
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How to send mail from command line
I issue $ mail -s "This is my subject" user@domain.com
Then I start typing what I think is the body.
How do quit typing and actually send the mail to the recipient? |
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05-27-2005, 07:33 AM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Wageningen, the Netherlands
Distribution: OS X
Posts: 483
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Maybe pressing [CTRL-D] will help.
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05-27-2005, 08:08 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Norway
Distribution: FC5
Posts: 27
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Sure did.
How intuitive.
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05-27-2005, 01:52 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Wageningen, the Netherlands
Distribution: OS X
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[POST DELETED]
Last edited by JunctaJuvant; 05-27-2005 at 04:47 PM.
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07-22-2006, 07:28 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 1
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how to send email on linux command line
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07-23-2006, 02:35 PM
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Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Grenoble
Distribution: Debian
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sajiviswanath, you have an answer in the first post of the thread. Of course, you need to have 'mail' program installed.
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07-23-2006, 10:18 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora
Posts: 27
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a period "." on a line all by itself after the body of the message should work.
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