mail Command Examples
The command operates on the user's mailbox if no argument is given. To send an email the message body is built from
stdin. More information: https://manned.org/mail.
- Open an interactive prompt to check personal mail:
mail
- Send a typed email message with optional CC. The command-line below continues after pressing
<Enter>. Input message text (can be multiline). Press<Ctrl>-Dto complete the message text:
mail --subject="{{subject line}}" {{to_user@example.com}} --cc="{{cc_email_address}}"
- Send an email that contains file content:
mail --subject="{{$HOSTNAME filename.txt}}" {{to_user@example.com}} < {{path/to/filename.txt}}
- Send a
tar.gzfile as an attachment:
tar cvzf - {{path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2}} | uuencode {{data.tar.gz}} | mail --subject="{{subject_line}}" {{to_user@example.com}}