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From: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
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Subject: Re: send e-mail in a plain unix-shell
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On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jim Freeze wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2001, Eric Boucher wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Is it possible to send e-mail in a plain unix shell
> > with the command line (so without X-server) to the
> > internet? Is the command line "mail username" can do
> > the trick? If it's possible, how can I do it (with
> > which command)?
> You can try mail or sendmail.
>
>   sendmail usr@domain.com
> Subject: <put subject here>
> Type text here.
> End with . on first column.

Oops, got caught with that . in the first column and my
message was prematurely terminated.

Also, try

  sendmail usr@domain.com < file
where file is
--begin file--
Subject: <subject>
From: <optional from>
To: <optional to>

Message
--end file--


HTH

Jim


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