mail consol commands?

[sandro ginnari]

Hi,
Tryed to understand from the man page but it's realy out of my mind!
Witch is the command line for using the mail function?
thanks
sandro

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

try mailx -s "suject" recipients

[sandro ginnari]

I actualy need the syntax and the procedure for sending a mail from consol.
Thanks

[Patrick Wessel]

Have you ever tried 'elm' or 'mail' command?

elm gives you an userinterface

[John Palmer]

If you mean sending/reading mail then the standard commands are mail, mailx or elm.

mail and mailx are pretty much command line utilities with mailx being an extended version of mail.

elm provides a screen based interface.

Regards,

John

[Berlene Herren · Accepted solution]

I use this when using sendmail.

sendmail -v user@hostname.com
text
control D

If you are sending a file (example using /etc/hosts)

uuencode /etc/hosts hosts.txt | sendmail -v user@hostname



Berlene

[Anthony Goonetilleke]

I think a bit of clarity is on order..
If you want to use an interactive mail program to send email from a console then you could use the following two as they are probably the best.
- elm
- pine

If you want to pipe the output of something or use it in a script you could use
- mailx
- sendmail
- mail

[Morgan Pike]

If you want to maybe send a file, use this example.
mailx -m -s 'This is my test' address@.com < /home/test/test123
This will send the file test123 to the mail address "address@.com".

[Madanagopalan S]

if you are looking for a command syntax to send messages thru
mail use
echo $MESSAGE | mailx -s "subject" user_name@address