I am using the "mail" command in Linux shell to send an email when programmatically prompted to do so. I am using
mail -s 'subject' recipient#theirhost.com <<< 'Email body'
to send it at present, but this does not include a sender address. Instead, the system uses the account name as the sender address. I've seen the claim that "-aFrom:myname#myhost.com" should work, but -a is being interpreted as an attachment attempt, not a header change. This results in the error: "From:Mynamemyname#myhost.com: No such file or directory". I've also seen a claim that this works:
-r "from#fromserver.com"
But the OS doesn't even know what that means, in my case.
Is there a way to make this work without additional software? I don't need a from name, but a from address would be very helpful.
Note: let's consider ssmtp, mutt, and other such add-on software unavailable. Attempting to install and use such software would be problematic.
Thank you!
Edit 1: I'm not certain how to check what version of "mail" I have. With some difficulty, I got it to spit out the usage, which is as follows.
-T FILE -u USER -h hops -r address -s SUBJECT -a FILE -q FILE -f FILE -A ACCOUNT -b USERS -c USERS -S OPTION users
Never mind, I got it. "-r" can actually work.
I successfully used:
echo "This is the message body" | mail -s "This is the Subject" -r "FromName<fromAddress#example.com>" recipientName#example.com
It looks like karakfa was onto something also, as I do have mailx available to me also, but it looks like I won't be needing that for this use case.
Thank you!
Is it possible to send email with address name with third party domain?
For example to send email with address name: my_email#google.com using Linux environment?
mailx utility can do this. Below is the example:
Suppose CONTENT is a variable storing the content.
echo $CONTENT | mailx -r FROM_EMAIL_ID -s "SUBJECT" TO_EMAIL_ID
Else, you want to pass a file having mail body named CONTENT.txt,
mailx -r FROM_EMAIL_ID -s "SUBJECT" TO_EMAIL_ID < CONTENT.txt
I have a crontab which is supposed to send an email, but it doesn't.
echo " ok backup " > /home/nuvoshift01/zDB-backup-start.txt
mysqldump --opt --user=q --password=xyz --host=localhost giladparking > /home/nuvoshift01/GPmonthly-DBdump.sql
mutt me#gmail.com -s "MySQL BackUp" -a /home/nuvoshift01/GPmonthly-DBdump.sql < /home/nuvoshift01/zDB-backup-start.txt > /home/nuvoshift01/whatHappened.txt
touch /home/nuvoshift01/zDB-bacup-end.txt
(1) the first line does touch the file as coded
(2) the back up file is created
(3) the mutt mail does not send
(4) the 4th line does touch the file as coded
if I issue the mutt command from the command the email IS sent with the attachment
my puzzle/question is: why doesn't the email get sent by the crontab?
OK, today I provide the solution to my own problem. I determined to send the email with mutt I needed to create a properly configured .muttrc file AND explicitly describe the path in the cron task.
my .muttrc file looks like this :
set from = "anyaddress#anydomain.com"
set hostname = hostname.com
set envelope_from = yes
the mutt command needs to look like this:
mutt -F /home/user/.muttrc -s "SUBJECT" any#address.com -a /home/user/attachedfile.txt < /home/user/bodyofmessage.txt
It turns out the message will likely end up in the spam folder of the recipient.
A special thank you for Major Hayden at Rack Space for his assistance behind the scenes.
I am using mail command to send an email. It works fine.
echo "Ignore this email" | mail -s "Test Data" DL-host-PD-WAS-TT_Emp#corp.host.com
But the only confusion I have is, in my email I didn't get any subject and it always show as (no subject) in my email as I am also specifying subject option in the above command as -s but it is not working I guess somehow.
I am running SunOS.
bash-3.00$ uname -a
SunOS lvsaishdc3in0001 5.10 Generic_142901-02 i86pc i386 i86pc
And also I am not seeing To: list in my email. How can I make this thing works?
On all Solaris systems, you should not use "mail", you should use "mailx".
Try using mailx. http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/tcg/consweb/Solaris/mail.html
Modify your command like this-
echo "Ignore this email" | mailx -s "Test Data" DL-host-PD-WAS-TT_Emp#corp.host.com
Does anyone know how to change the from user when sending email using the mail command? I have looked through the man page and can not see how to do this.
We are running Redhat Linux 5.
You can specify any extra header you may need with -a
$mail -s "Some random subject" -a "From: some#mail.tld" to#mail.tld
http://www.mindspill.org/962 seems to have a solution.
Essentially:
echo "This is the main body of the mail" | mail -s "Subject of the Email" recipent_address#example.com -- -f from_user#example.com
mail -r from#from.from -R from#from.com
-r = from-addr
-R = reply-to addr
The author has indicated his version of mail doesn't support this flag. But if you have a version that does this works fine.
When sending over SMTP, the mail man page advises to set the from variable, in this way (Tested on CentOS 6):
mail -s Subject -S from=sender#example.com recipient#example.com
You could also attach a file using the -a option:
mail -s Subject -S from=sender#example.com -a path_to_attachement recipient#example.com
None of these worked for me (Ubuntu 12.04) but finally with trial & error I got:
echo 'my message blabla\nSecond line (optional of course)' |
mail -s "Your message title"
-r 'Your full name<yourSenderAdress#yourDomain.abc>'
-Sreplyto="yourReplyAdressIfDifferent#domain.abc"
destinatorEmail#destDomain.abc[,otherDestinator#otherDomain.abc]
(all in one line, there is no space in "-Sreplyto")
I got this mail command from:
apt-get install mailutils
You can append sendmail options to the end of the mail command by first adding --. -f is the command on sendmail to set the from address. So you can do this:
mail recipient#foo.com -- -f sender#bar.com
None of the above worked for me. And it took me long to figure it out, hopefully this helps the next guy.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with mailutils v2.1.
I found this solutions somewhere on the net, don't know where, can't find it again:
-aFrom:Servername-Server#mydomain.com
Full Command used:
cat /root/Reports/ServerName-Report-$DATE.txt | mail -s "Server-Name-Report-$DATE" myemailadress#mydomain.com -aFrom:Servername-Server#mydomain.com
Here's a solution.
The second easiest solution after -r (which is to specify a From: header and separate it from the body by a newline like this
$mail -s "Subject" destination#example.com
From: Joel <joel#example.com>
Hi!
.
works in only a few mail versions, don't know what version redhat carries).
PS: Most versions of mail suck!
on CentOs5: -r from#me.omg
echo "This is the main body of the mail" | mail -s "Subject of the Email" recipent_address#example.com -- -f from_user#example.com -F "Elvis Presley"
or
echo "This is the main body of the mail" | mail -s "Subject of the Email" recipent_address#example.com -aFrom:"Elvis Presley<from_user#example.com>"
Most people need to change two values when trying to correctly forge the from address on an email. First is the from address and the second is the orig-to address. Many of the solutions offered online only change one of these values.
If as root, I try a simple mail command to send myself an email it might look like this.
echo "test" | mail -s "a test" me#noone.com
And the associated logs:
Feb 6 09:02:51 myserver postfix/qmgr[28875]: B10322269D: from=<root#myserver.com>, size=437, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Feb 6 09:02:52 myserver postfix/smtp[19848]: B10322269D: to=<me#noone.com>, relay=myMTA[x.x.x.x]:25, delay=0.34, delays=0.1/0/0.11/0.13, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok 0000014b5f678593-a0e399ef-a801-4655-ad6b-19864a220f38-000000)
Trying to change the from address with --
echo "test" | mail -s "a test" me#noone.com -- dude#thisguy.com
This changes the orig-to value but not the from value:
Feb 6 09:09:09 myserver postfix/qmgr[28875]: 6BD362269D: from=<root#myserver.com>, size=474, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Feb 6 09:09:09 myserver postfix/smtp[20505]: 6BD362269D: to=<me#noone>, orig_to=<dude#thisguy.com>, relay=myMTA[x.x.x.x]:25, delay=0.31, delays=0.06/0/0.09/0.15, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok 0000014b5f6d48e2-a98b70be-fb02-44e0-8eb3-e4f5b1820265-000000)
Next trying it with a -r and a -- to adjust the from and orig-to.
echo "test" | mail -s "a test" -r dude#comeguy.com me#noone.com -- dude#someguy.com
And the logs:
Feb 6 09:17:11 myserver postfix/qmgr[28875]: E3B972264C: from=<dude#someguy.com>, size=459, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
Feb 6 09:17:11 myserver postfix/smtp[21559]: E3B972264C: to=<me#noone.com>, orig_to=<dude#someguy.com>, relay=myMTA[x.x.x.x]:25, delay=1.1, delays=0.56/0.24/0.11/0.17, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok 0000014b5f74a2c0-c06709f0-4e8d-4d7e-9abf-dbcea2bee2ea-000000)
This is how it's working for me. Hope this helps someone.
This works on Centos7
echo "This is the main body of the mail" | mail -s "Subject of the Email" -r seneder_address#whatever.com recipent_address#example.com
Here's an answer from 2018, on Debian 9 stretch.
Note the -e for echo to allow newline characters, and -r for mailx to show a name along with an outgoing email address:
$ echo -e "testing email via yourisp.com from command line\n\nsent on: $(date)" | mailx -r "Foghorn Leghorn <sender#yourisp.com>" -s "test cli email $(date)" -- recipient#somedomain.com
Hope this helps!
For CentOS here is the working command :
mail -s Subject -S from=sender#example.com recipient#example.com
Thanks to all example providers, some worked for some not.
Below is another simple example format that worked for me.
echo "Sample body" | mail -s "Test email" from=sender-addrs#example.com recepient-addres#example.com