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Sending Mail from Command Line 1

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amacbean

amacbean

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Nov 18, 2002
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What is the best way to send an email from the command line?

I have had a look at sendmail but it seems you cannot specify the Subject from the command line??
 
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Try mailx - eg:

mailx -s subject email_address < your_text_file
 
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