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05-08-2012, 05:25 AM
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How to send email to my yahoo account from command line?
Assalam o Alaikum.
Dear all, I want to send email from my command line to my yahoo account. I am trying following command but nothing happens. I mean no email received on my yahoo account also no error message display.
[root@Zohaib zohaib_shaikh]# mail -s “Helloworld” uk.engr@yahoo.com
This is my First Email form command line
EOT
[root@Zohaib zohaib_shaikh]#
No success. Please guide me thanks. |
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05-08-2012, 06:02 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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Is the "mail" program intended to go outside the local system? I just skimmed the man page, and I don't see how one would specify outgoing and incoming servers.
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05-08-2012, 06:09 AM
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Yes I want to send email to Yahoo account (WAN) from my local network/system (LAN).
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05-08-2012, 06:18 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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OK---how would you specify the incoming and outgoing servers used by your ISP?---I don't see anything about this in the "mail" manpage.
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05-08-2012, 07:57 AM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: VIC, Australia
Distribution: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu
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Quote:
Originally Posted by uk.engr
Assalam o Alaikum.
Dear all, I want to send email from my command line to my yahoo account. I am trying following command but nothing happens. I mean no email received on my yahoo account also no error message display.
[root@Zohaib zohaib_shaikh]# mail -s “Helloworld” uk.engr@yahoo.com
This is my First Email form command line
EOT
[root@Zohaib zohaib_shaikh]#
No success. Please guide me thanks. |
Try sending through telnet by connecting to one of yahoo's MX servers. |
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05-08-2012, 08:43 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
Posts: 17,809
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I've done a bit more research---I found references to configuring the servers as part of the ~/.mailrc file. Then I noted that my machine does not have this file.
Curiously, a lot of the stuff on "mail" that google finds does not discuss the .mailrc file at all.
???
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05-08-2012, 08:45 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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Quote:
Originally Posted by the_gripmaster
Try sending through telnet by connecting to one of yahoo's MX servers.
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I thought that "telnet" was a protocol for remote login to another computer (one where you have privileges). How does this relate to sending mail? |
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05-08-2012, 09:31 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2010
Location: SI : 45.9531, 15.4894
Distribution: CentOS, OpenNA/Trustix, testing desktop openSuse 12.1 /Cinnamon/KDE4.8
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pixellany
I thought that "telnet" was a protocol for remote login to another computer (one where you have privileges). How does this relate to sending mail?
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Like this.
good luck
PS. If you're on a Dynamic IP address range (ex. from your ISP) then almost all mail services (servers) will refuse it. |
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05-08-2012, 06:51 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Annapolis, MD
Distribution: Mint
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Clever!!--But, to be precise, does not address the OP's question (wants to use the "mail" utility)
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05-09-2012, 02:25 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2010
Location: SI : 45.9531, 15.4894
Distribution: CentOS, OpenNA/Trustix, testing desktop openSuse 12.1 /Cinnamon/KDE4.8
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Quote:
Originally Posted by uk.engr
Assalam o Alaikum.
Dear all, I want to send email from my command line to my yahoo account. I am trying following command but nothing happens. I mean no email received on my yahoo account also no error message display.
[root@Zohaib zohaib_shaikh]# mail -s “Helloworld” uk.engr@yahoo.com
This is my First Email form command line
EOT
[root@Zohaib zohaib_shaikh]#
No success. Please guide me thanks. |
What is your system OS (RHEL, Ubuntu ...)
and
which MTA is it using (sendmail, postfix ..) ?
It will be easier to help you if you can provide some server's info. |
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05-09-2012, 08:02 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.x
Posts: 18,434
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Code:
(uname -n)|mail -s "Test email" x@somewhere.com
basically works for me, although I usually use mailx.
I haven't tried sending it to yahoo; as above if you're on a dynamic addr, the ISP may block it. |
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05-09-2012, 09:20 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,887
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In his podcast episode 5x06, Klaatu discussed setting up using Linux to do just what OP is asking.
You can find it towards the bottom of this page: http://gnuworldorder.info/index5.html (he does not provide a link to the specific episode). |
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05-10-2012, 01:54 AM
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Alhumdulillah! Following command perfectly works. Actually I received email in spam and little late so I understood that it doesn't work but actually it perfectly works
mailx -s “Success” uk.engr@yahoo.com |
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