How to Send Email with Attachments from Command Line in Linux

Below are the various, well known methods of sending email with attachment from the terminal.

1. Using mail Command. mail is part of the mailutils (On Debian) and mailx (On RedHat) package and it is used to process messages on the command line. ...
2. Using mutt Command. ...
3. Using mailx Command. ...
4. Using mpack Command.

1. How do I send a file as an attachment in Linux?
2. How send attachment with Uuencode Linux?
3. How do I send an attachment using Sendmail?
4. How use sendmail command in Linux?
5. How do you send an attachment using Sendmail in Unix?
6. How do you send mail in Linux?
7. How do I send multiple files as an attachment in Linux?
8. What is mailx in Linux?
9. How do I know if mailx is installed on Linux?
10. How do you attach a csv file in Unix?
11. How do I change the subject in Sendmail?
12. How can I tell if SMTP server is running on Linux?
13. How do I read Sendmail?

How do I send a file as an attachment in Linux?

Method 2 : -a switch in mailx command

Type the body of the message here and press [ctrl] + [d] to send. This will attach the file to the outbound email correctly with proper Content-Type and boundary headers. To send mails with a message body, replace /dev/null in above command with your message body file.

How send attachment with Uuencode Linux?

To send an attachment from the email, use uuencode command. On RedHat (and related distributions), uuencode is part of the sharutils package. So, install the sharutils as shown below. Once you've confirmed that you have uuencode, send the email with an attachment as shown below.

How do I send an attachment using Sendmail?

Type uuencode /path/filename. txt | sendmail -s "subject" user@domain in your terminal to send mail. Replace "path" with the actual directory path in which the file to attach is located. Replace "filename.

How use sendmail command in Linux?

Using sendmail from the command line

1. The first line indicates the email address sendmail will send the email TO.
2. The Subject is 'Test Send Mail'.
3. The body of the message says 'Hello World'.
4. When the message is received, the FROM email address will appear as your user@server.

How do you send an attachment using Sendmail in Unix?

Whether it will work properly depends on the email client that the recipient uses.

1. Open the Terminal.
2. Type "uuencode /path/filename. ext | mail -s "subject" user@domain". Replace "path" with the actual directory path in which the file to attach is located. Replace "filename. ...
3. Press "Enter."

How do you send mail in Linux?

Specify the sender name and address

To specify the additional information with the mail command, use the -a option with the command. Execute the command as follows: $ echo "Message body" | mail -s "Subject" -aFrom:Sender_name\<Sender mail address\> recipient address.

How do I send multiple files as an attachment in Linux?

send attachments using send mail in Solaris

concatinating uuencode output to the mail body with mailx command works, but as my Email body is of HTML type i use sendmail. my command to send HTML body is as below: export MAILTO="[email protected]"...

What is mailx in Linux?

Linux has an inbuilt Mail User Agent program called mailx. As the name suggests, it is a console application that is used for sending and receiving emails. The mailx utility is an enhanced version of the mail command.

How do I know if mailx is installed on Linux?

On CentOS/Fedora based systems, there is only one package named "mailx" which is the heirloom package. To find out what mailx package is installed on your system, check the "man mailx" output and scroll down to the end and you should see some useful information.

How do you attach a csv file in Unix?

Here is how to send an email :

1. mailx -s “Subject goes here” “toemail@address” “body goes here”
2. mailx -r “sender@emailaddress” -s “Subject” “toemail@address” “body goes here”
3. mailx -s “Subject goes here” “toemail@address” < body.txt.
4. uuencode data.csv data.csv|mailx –s “Subject goes here” “toemail@address”

How do I change the subject in Sendmail?

Sending a subject

You'd need to supply the subject to sendmail using a switch on the sendmail command line, much as you are doing for the "to" and "from". "man sendmail" will probably get you only the syntax for running sendmail as a server, not as a client as you are doing here. Try "man mail" for the client version.

How can I tell if SMTP server is running on Linux?

To check if SMTP is working from the command line (Linux), is one critical aspect to be considered while setting up an email server. The most common way of checking SMTP from Command Line is using telnet, openssl or ncat (nc) command. It is also the most prominent way to test SMTP Relay.

How do I read Sendmail?

The first letter is usually one of :

1. d the body of the mail.
2. q the message envelope with routing information and headers when the message is normal.
3. Q rename of the "q" file when the message is abandoned for some reason.
4. h rename of the "q" file when the message is held (quarantined by a milter)
5. t temporary file.