Sendmail is the SMTP server that is used to send mail via command line. Sendmail command is mostly used by Linux/Unix distributer. With help of sendmail you can send mail via our Cronjob, shell script etc. we define different ways to send e-mail via command line as follow. You can choose the one of them for sending the e-mail via command line in Linux.
1. Sendmail Command:
You can send the email via command line by simply using the ‘sendmail’ command. For send the e-mail via Sendmail command first you need create file and add the given content.
# cat /tmp/mymail.txt/
Subject : server are not responding
Email content Line1
Email content Line 2
Subject: define the sending mail subject.
After that you can send the email using the given command.
Syntax:
# sendmail admin@emp.com < /tmp/email.txt
2. Mail command:
You can also send the email via using the mail command in Linux system.
Syntax:
# mail –s “subject” admin@emp.com < /dev/null
-s: s option is used to describe subject.
-a: a option is used for attachment.
3. Mutt command:
The mutt command is used to read emails on terminal of linux. You can also read emails from other server like IMAP/POP.
Syntax:
# mutt – s “email for server” admin@emp.com < /dev/null
You can send email with attach file using given command.
Syntax:
# mutt “email for server” – a /opt/myarticle.sql admin@emp.com < /dev/null
4. SSMTP command:
Ssmtp command is used to send the email from SMTP server.
Syntax:
# ssmtp admin@emp.com
Subject: send mail to SSMTP server
^d
5. telent command:
telent command is used by system administrator to test the connectivity of remote port. with the help of this command you can troubleshoot problems of sending email.
Syntax:
# telent localhost smtp
1. Sendmail Command:
You can send the email via command line by simply using the ‘sendmail’ command. For send the e-mail via Sendmail command first you need create file and add the given content.
# cat /tmp/mymail.txt/
Subject : server are not responding
Email content Line1
Email content Line 2
Subject: define the sending mail subject.
After that you can send the email using the given command.
Syntax:
# sendmail admin@emp.com < /tmp/email.txt
2. Mail command:
You can also send the email via using the mail command in Linux system.
Syntax:
# mail –s “subject” admin@emp.com < /dev/null
-s: s option is used to describe subject.
-a: a option is used for attachment.
3. Mutt command:
The mutt command is used to read emails on terminal of linux. You can also read emails from other server like IMAP/POP.
Syntax:
# mutt – s “email for server” admin@emp.com < /dev/null
You can send email with attach file using given command.
Syntax:
# mutt “email for server” – a /opt/myarticle.sql admin@emp.com < /dev/null
4. SSMTP command:
Ssmtp command is used to send the email from SMTP server.
Syntax:
# ssmtp admin@emp.com
Subject: send mail to SSMTP server
^d
5. telent command:
telent command is used by system administrator to test the connectivity of remote port. with the help of this command you can troubleshoot problems of sending email.
Syntax:
# telent localhost smtp
