How to send email from Terminal?

Question

I know there are ways to send email from terminal in Linux/MacOS, but I can't seem to find proper documentation on how to do that.

Basically I need it for my bash script that notifies me every time there is a change in a file.

Answer 1

If all you need is a subject line (as in an alert message) simply do:

mailx -s "This is all she wrote" < /dev/null "myself@myaddress"

Answer 2

in the terminal on your mac os or linux os type this code

mail -s (subject) (receiversEmailAddress)  <<< "how are you?"

for an example try this

mail -s "hi" [e-mail] <<< "how are you?"<br>

Answer 3

If you want to attach a file on Linux

echo 'mail content' | mailx -s 'email subject' -a attachment.txt [e-mail]

Answer 4

Go into Terminal and type man mail for help.

You will need to set SMTP up:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20081217161612647

See also:

http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/09/send-mail-over-your-network.html

Eg:

mail -s "hello" "[e-mail]" <<EOF
hello
world
EOF

This will send an email to [e-mail] with the subject hello and the message

Hello

World

Answer 5

echo "this is the body" | mail -s "this is the subject" "to@address"