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Old 05-27-2005, 05:14 AM   #1
buskmann
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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?
 
Old 05-27-2005, 07:33 AM   #2
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Maybe pressing [CTRL-D] will help.
 
Old 05-27-2005, 08:08 AM   #3
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Sure did.

How intuitive.
 
Old 05-27-2005, 01:52 PM   #4
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Old 05-27-2005, 04:24 PM   #5
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JunctaJuvant, I made a mistake and your post was not moved to the new thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=327801
 
Old 07-22-2006, 07:28 AM   #6
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how to send email on linux command line
 
Old 07-23-2006, 02:35 PM   #7
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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.
 
Old 07-23-2006, 10:18 PM   #8
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a period "." on a line all by itself after the body of the message should work.
 
  


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