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mailx is a command-line utility for reading and sending email

mailx is a command-line utility for reading and sending email. It is a variant of the traditional mail command that evolved into many incompatible versions. The mailx command is standardized in POSIX.

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dpkg cannot find ldconfig/start-stop-daemon in the PATH variable

I was trying to install bsd-mailx utility the package got installed however I am wondering about the error. This is the error I get: Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: warning:…
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Difference between mail and mailx?

Whats the difference between mail and mailx? I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem where I can send mail from server A with this echo $MESSAGE | mail -s "$SUBJECT" -r $FROM $RECIPIENTS command but executing the same command from server B throws me…
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use 'mail' to read email from command line

I know we can use mail command in terminal to start using the mail program in interactive mode. However, I want to read the email using mail command non-interactively. Is there a command like $ mail -optionToReadMail -mailNumber 1; which will…
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How can I bcc with mailx?

I'm trying to send unix mail (heirloom-mailx) via bcc. $ mail -V 12.5 6/20/10 My MTA is exim, which sends via Gmail SMTP. I can execute the following: echo -e "body" | mail -s 'subject' -b [email protected],[email protected]…
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How to make cron send email with error log when script throws errors?

I have a cron job that runs a script that writes checks for errors in an sql database and writes the errors to a log file. The log file is supplied in the command to run the script. I only want to receive an email when the script finds errors, and I…
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How to download all the e-mail messages from POP3 server to a single text file with mailx?

I would like to download all the e-mails in my old e-mail server. It uses POP3 and I'm interested in e-mails in "Inbox" and "Sent" folders. Once I have downloaded all the messages, I would like to make a script which lists all the e-mails between my…
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HTML email from heirloom mailx on linux

I've been trying to work through sending a html email from mailx on a linux server. Few Notes: I have to specify a smtp server so therefore I cannot use sendmail (This is not something I can change on my end) I cannot install 3rd party things such…
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Calling mailx from crond

I had a problem that gmail was blocking emails sent using mailx. I solved this by setting up an appropriate ~/.mailrc, which looks like: set smtp-use-starttls set nss-config-dir=/home/theuser/.certs set ssl-verify=ignore set…
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Ubuntu 18.04: Error with mailx smtp - mailx: unrecognized option "-S'"?

I was trying to send an email to multiple persons using mailx (mailx (GNU Mailutils) 3.4). I did that successfully on a previous version of Ubuntu, v16.04, and the script was working fine. Now I have Ubuntu 18.04 and the following problem: mailx:…
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How to include the name in the to: address of the person you are sending mail to in mailx(UNIX-HP)

I am trying to use the mailx program to send an e-mail. I want the name of the person to be included in the [email protected] like the normal one on Microsoft Outlook or gmail account e.g "Thomas" ls -l $HOME | mailx -r…
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Install mailx on CentOS 9

I can't install mailx on CentOS 9. yum install mailx -y Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:13 ago on Sat 09 Apr 2022 07:55:59 PM UTC. No match for argument: mailx Error: Unable to find a match: mailx
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How to avoid the "pager" in mailx?

Having many short mail messages in my inbox, it's quite annoying that even short messages are sent though a pager (less), requiring to press 'q' before I can view the next message (for example). I read the manual page about pager, but none of these…
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what things i should know when using mailx command

I am using mailx command to send mail, I tried it by two ways.. mailx -s "This is Subject" toAddr < bodyFile.txt mailx -r "fromAddr" -s "This is Subject" toAddr < bodyFile.txt I am getting same error: send-mail: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces:…
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Sending HTML using mailx with postfix 2.6.6 and centOS 6.4

I'm trying to send an HTML email from our CentOS server to users. In the long run I'll be building a COBOL program that runs the command to send reports to the user. Here are a few details. CentOS 6.4 MAU : Mailx MTA : Postfix 2.6.6 Postfix is…
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Get list of unread emails from Unix server

We are trying to get a list of unread emails from our Unix server using mailx -L. However, the email subject gets truncated if its length is greater than 25 characters. How can this be resolved?
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