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mailx — Send and receive mail. More information: <https://manned.org/mailx>.

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Problem

How to use the mailx command: Send and receive mail. More information: <https://manned.org/mailx>.

Solution

mailx — Send and receive mail. More information: <https://manned.org/mailx>.

Send mail (the content should be typed after the command, and ended with <Ctrl d>):
mailx {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{to_addr}}


Send mail with content passed from another command:
echo "{{content}}" | mailx {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{to_addr}}


Send mail with content read from a file:
mailx < {{content.txt}} {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{to_addr}}


Send mail to a recipient and CC to another address:
mailx {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{[-c|--cc]}} {{cc_addr}} {{to_addr}}


Send mail specifying the sender address:
mailx {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{[-r|--from-address]}} {{from_addr}} {{to_addr}}


Send mail with an attachment:
mailx {{[-a|--attach]}} {{path/to/file}} {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{to_addr}}

Code Snippets

Send mail (the content should be typed after the command, and ended with `<Ctrl d>`)

mailx {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{to_addr}}

Send mail with content passed from another command

echo "{{content}}" | mailx {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{to_addr}}

Send mail with content read from a file

mailx < {{content.txt}} {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{to_addr}}

Send mail to a recipient and CC to another address

mailx {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{[-c|--cc]}} {{cc_addr}} {{to_addr}}

Send mail specifying the sender address

mailx {{[-s|--subject]}} "{{subject}}" {{[-r|--from-address]}} {{from_addr}} {{to_addr}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/mailx

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