Send UNIX Email

Monday, May 06, 2013 1:54 PM

UNIX email utility send notifications, for example, when cron jobs are being processed.
Name: sendmail. Commands: mail or mailx.
Config file is required for this utility to work. Contact our Linux Admins (Infrastructure - Servers) if mail
stops being sent.

Sending quick test email from the Linux command line:

# mail -s Hello world your_email@your_domain.com

Hit the return key and you will come to a new line. Optionally, enter additional text such as This is a
test from my server. Follow up the text by hitting the return key again.

Press the key combination of Control+D to continue. The command prompt will ask you if you want to
mark a copy of the mail to any other address, hit Control+D again. Check your mailbox (you should have
an email within seconds). This command will send out a mail to the specified email id with the subject,
Hello world.

Enter mail to read mail sent to apps mailbox

? print this help message

# display message number #
- print previous
+ next (no delete)
! cmd execute cmd
<CR> next (no delete)
a position at and read newly arrived mail
d [#] delete message # (default current message)
dp delete current message and print the next
dq delete current message and exit
ha display all headers
hd display headers of letters scheduled for deletion
h [#] display headers around # (default current message)
m user mail (and delete) current message to user
n next (no delete)
p print (override any warnings of binary content)
P override default 'brief' mode and display ALL header lines
q, ^D quit
r [args] reply to (and delete) current letter via mail [args]
s [files] save (and delete) current message (default mbox)
u [#] undelete message # (default current message)
w [files] save (and delete) current message without header
x exit without changing mail
y [files] save (and delete) current message (default mbox)

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