Questions tagged [email]
Sending, receiving, reading, composing, sorting, and generally working with email. For the mail(1) command line utility, see the tag /mail-command.
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Lightweight outgoing SMTP server
What do you use as a lightweight SMTP for outgoing e-mails only?
I am running an app that sends e-mails via SMTP when events occur once in a while, and I don't need a fully featured e-mail server.
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How do I send HTML email using linux 'mail' command?
mail -s "subject" [email protected] <test.html
works, but only for plain text email.
What is the correct way to send HTML email using the Linux command mail?
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Can I set up system mail to use an external SMTP server?
Is it possible to set up system mail on a linux box to be sent via a different smtp server - maybe even with authentication? If so, how do I do this?
If that's unclear, let give an example. If I'm at ...
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Gmail blocking mutt
When I try to log in to gmail with mutt, it flashes a quick Webalert with a url, something like accounts.gmail.com or something. It's too quick for me to see or copy it. Then it says Login failed.
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How do I completely silence a cronjob to /dev/null/?
On my Ubuntu-Desktop and on my debian-server I have a script which needs to be executed each minute (a script that calls the minute-tic of my space online browsergame).
The problem is that on ...
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Understanding /etc/aliases and what it does
This is the contents of the file /etc/aliases on my Debian (Wheezy) server, as it is:
# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
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How to remove "You have mail" welcome message
When I open up my terminal it says "you have mail", anyone has any idea of why? I am running OS X, but since it too is based on Unix and relies on files such as bashrc, bash_profile etc. I thought ...
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Difference between mail and mailx? [duplicate]
Whats the difference between mail and mailx?
I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem where I can send mail from server A with this echo $MESSAGE | mail -s "$SUBJECT" -r $FROM $RECIPIENTS command but ...
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How can I send attachment with ssmtp in Linux?
I can send email from my gmail account by ssmtp in Linux now. But how can I attach files to the email?
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Simplest way of forwarding all mail from server? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Lightweight outgoing SMTP server
I am looking for a minimal mail solution (MTA) for a headless server which generate e-mails for local users and and fully qualified addresses ...
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Automatically detect when a file has reached a size limit
I would like to send an email when a file reach a certain size limit.
The only way I thought of doing this is by doing a cronjob which will check the file size and send the email if the file is ...
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How to set up local mail retrieval and delivery?
$ mail
No mail for lazer
$
I am able to send mails using mail.
I have unread mails in my inbox as I can see in Outlook.
Why doesn't mail show me my mails? How can I make mail fetch them?
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What is the MIME equivalent of uuencode for sendmail?
e.g., I've got files I want to send by sendmail but the receiving mailbox (for posting pictures to my blog) will not accept uuencode files a la
$uuencode file | sendmail user@domain
I'm guessing it'...
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Email using shell script
Is there a possibility to add multiple e-mails to a single variable so that when the shell script is run, it sends a mail to all the specified emails?
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Simplest way to send mail with image attachment from command line using gmail?
Building on the previous post where the requirement was to have cron jobs send status messages via a single command line, as posted here:
Simplest way to send one-line mail out via command line using ...
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