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How to send mail from the command line?

How to send mail from the command line?
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Can I edit which icons appear in the Unity dash?

When I open the dash in 11.04, I get two rows of icons. The first row contains 'lenses' that take me to lists of applicaitons/files; the second row opens specific applications - Browse the Web, View ...
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cron.daily jobs not running

I created 3 daily cron jobs to run. Below are the three that are placed in etc/cron.daily rkhunter.sh #!/bin/sh ( rkhunter --versioncheck rkhunter --update rkhunter --cronjob --report-warnings-only ...
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How to make crontab email me with output?

How can I make crontab email me with the output of its jobs? I have [email protected] above the jobs, but it doesn't work. I know I need to use something like Postfix or Sendmail but for ...
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Exchange with Evolution or any other mail client

I see other questions about this, no answers and no one with a completely similar question. I work for a place with an Exchange 2007 server. There is an http://owa.ourserver.com that is accessible ...
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How to send an email using command line? [duplicate]

Here's what I have: cat UserReport.txt | mail -s "TestSubject" "[email protected]" It's a small file, much smaller than a picture so it should send almost instantly. Though I receive nothing. I ...
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Unable to send a email through the command line on (Ubuntu Desktop)

I'm trying to send a email from my Ubuntu: mailx -s "This is all she wrote" < /dev/null [email protected] or mail -s "hfdsfds" [email protected] And nothing has happened at all. No email....
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How do I set up an email server?

My VPS is running Ubuntu, and I'd like to be able to receive email to my domain. How do I easily set up a mail server to do this?
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Can I make links to email addresses open Gmail instead of Evolution?

When I click on a link to an email address in Firefox or Google Chrome a "Welcome to Evolution" screen appears. Can I make Gmail open instead, or at the very least disable Evolution from running?
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How do I set Cron to send emails? [duplicate]

I have the following cron job command running once daily on my NAS device: find /nfs/rpiggott/complete -mtime +45 -exec rm {} \; I am wondering if there is a way to pipe a list that will result in ...
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Is it possible to make Popper mail notification working on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 (MATE and Unity)?

In Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I used Popper as e-mail checker. It supports POP/POP3 and IMAP without and with SSL. Has Thunderbird integration. and integrates into indicator-messages: - no new e-mails - ...
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Which option ("internet site", "internet with smarthost", "satellite system") should I choose in postfix configuration?

When I attempt to install postfix on my home desktop system, I get a configuration dialog with the following options1: No configuration: Should be chosen to leave the current configuration unchanged. ...
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Sync Google Calendar Tasks with Evolution

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and prefer Evolution to Thunderbird as my mail manager and organiser. I run a gmail account and use the calendar a lot to organise future meetings,appointments and tasks.I ...
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Using Movemail with Thunderbird on Ubuntu

I'm trying to read local mail with Thunderbird on Ubuntu (with both 12.04 and 13.04). I've followed the instructions found here: How can I access system mail in /var/mail/ via thunderbird? I can read ...
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how do I get maximal compressed screenshots?

I'd like to compress my screenshots as much as possible before I send them via email. The best compression ratio I only got with some work on each screenshot: first I took the screenshot with shutter:...
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How to open eml files?

I've got a mail with eml file attached. I'm using Thunderbird but it doesn't open it. Could anybody suggest program to open eml files? Update: I don't want to import my mailbox I want only read the ...
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How to get an email notification when a USB storage device is inserted?

We are running more than 600 Ubuntu systems in our company. It is a data centre so we have certain policies. We have disabled the usage of storage devices in all the Ubuntu systems. However we would ...
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Changing email application in Preferred Applications to GMail?

I'm trying to change the Preferred Application for email. I have installed the package desktop-webmail, but there is no new option under System - Preferences - Preferred Application as you would ...
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Access Prompt keeps asking for GMail password

A pop up keeping appearing in Ubuntu (running 12.10), asking for the password to my gmail account. The icon has a silver shield, and it is labeled Access Prompt. The actual window has an image of ...
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How to make my server email me when there are security updates?

There's obviously a way to check to see when an update is a security update. I often get greeted by a motd that says "there are N security updates." What I'd like to do is have my server email me a ...
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Is it possible to obtain an e-mail address like [email protected]

Being an Ubuntu user for about 3 years, is it possible to obtain an e-mail address like [email protected] ?
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How can I setup a Mail Transfer Agent?

I intend to use mutt to send automated emails via cron or at with attachments to my gmail address when particular events happen on my Ubuntu server. Currently, mutt cannot send email to external ...
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Alternative to Microsoft Outlook

I recently switched to Ubuntu from Windows 10. I used to rely heavily on MS Outlook, and still do, and I want something similar in Ubuntu. I need an alternative that provides/supports/integrates (...
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How to configure Thunderbird to notify new mails only in certain folders?

I have Ubuntu 12.04 and recently started using Thunderbird. I have GMail account and have configured a lot of Labels in it, all of which appear as folders in Thunderbird. Most of these are just ...
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How to get ssmtp to map local user to email address for the To: field

I have a simple ssmtp setup. The command echo test | mail -s "testing" username always results in me trying to send an email to username@hostname which always fails. I am thus trying to map the ...
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Configure unattended upgrades notification e-mail's from address

I've recently built a server using 14.04.1 LTS, I wanted a very quick and simple way for it to let me know if, for example, it needed a system restart after installing upgrades. I decided e-mail was ...
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Thunderbird :: Stuck at Google sign-in

After updating my personal Gmail account password, I am unable to reconnect my Thunderbird to my Gmail account. I get to the Google login page, but when I click 'Next' nothing happens. I have ...
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How to change my the From: address in mutt?

When I use mutt under Ubuntu like below, my email address is shown as maemo@maemo-TomXue. I want to change it but didn't find how to do, who could help me? Thanks! y:Send q:Abort t:To c:CC s:Subj a:...
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How can I verify the integrity of an mbox archive from the command line?

I have a large mbox file backup from gmail. It's over 5GB, and gets updated with new messages every night via a cron job. I would like the cron job to also check the validity of the archive, to make ...
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Sign in with Google temporarily disabled for this app

Yesterday, I've discovered that KMail (5.7.3) on my Kubuntu 18.04 doesn't synchronize with Google mail inbox. I tried to re-create the gmail account, but after logging into Google I received the ...
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ssmtp Cannot open mail.server.com:25

I am trying to configure ssmtp on our Ubuntu 12.04 server. However I had no luck so far. My ssmtp.conf looks like this: [email protected] mailhub=mail.server.com:25 rewriteDomain= hostname=hostname....
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How can I change displayed name as sender?

I send email from my server like this: echo "This is the body of the email" | mail -s "This is the subject line" [email protected] Noted that I replace [email protected] with a real email address. And ...
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How to disable release upgrade notification emails?

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server installation that consistently sends a weekly email, from the root user, with the following content: /etc/cron.weekly/update-notifier-common: New release '16.04.1 LTS' ...
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Have Thunderbird 52 running in background

Just like what people asked here in the past (How to run Thunderbird in the background?, Start Thunderbird in background), I would like to have Thunderbird running at all times during which my PC is ...
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Send email via gmail, without other mail server, with postfix

I am inexperienced in configuring mail systems. I am using Ubuntu #54~20.04.1-Ubuntu. How can I configure my computer to send emails using a gmail account, with postfix? I mean not to have any other ...
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Thunderbird: Emails in Inbox folder cannot be displayed after migrating from Windows 7

When I was migrating from Windows 7 to Ubuntu, I took my Thunderbird profile and copied it into the Thunderbird profile folder under Ubuntu. When I started Thunderbird, everything worked fine and all ...
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Evolution cannot send mail from Yahoo or Hotmail

I recently installed Ubuntu and set up Evolution E-Mail. Although I can receive incoming email perfectly, I can't send any messages. These just go to the Evolution Outbox and stay there. I am using ...
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Email encryption for noobs

As everybody knows, emails are being read and stored. I don't like that so much and installed Enigmail, which enables PGP-encryption for emails in Thunderbird. It took me two days to install and ...
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How can I do a backup of my Thunderbird inbox

Ubuntu 14.04 is seriously misbehaving, and I only have access to the terminal. I propose to do a full reinstall, but want to backup the Thunderbird inbox for reinserting if it is otherwise lost in the ...
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nslookup query not working in Ubuntu

I am trying to use the code nslookup -q=mx gmail.com to find the mail server of gmail.com, but its not working on my Ubuntu. I have tried it in windows and it works fine. I can't find out what the ...
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How can I get notifications of new emails?

I was wondering, is there any way to get an on-screen notification when a new email is received, like in Google talk.
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How to convert multiple eml files into one mbox file?

Similar questions were asked 5 years ago and before, which answers are now obsolete. Also, I do not wish to use an online service. I wish to convert thousands of eml files into one mbox file. Would ...
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Stop emailing me bad sudo password attempts

I have cron setup to backup every morning and email it to my gmail account and it works great. A nasty side-effect is whenever I type my password wrong using sudo I also get an email which is annoying:...
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Postfix Dovecot SASL Authentication not enabled/working ubuntu 12.04 server

I set-up Postfix running with Dovecot with SASL support with virtual mailboxes in a Postgresql Database and Amavis Clamav and Spamassassin all working together Working = I can send and receive email ...
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Migrating to full Ubuntu after dual installation on WinXP

I previously ran 12.04 alongside WinXP to see how it performed on my mom's older laptop. i also migrated her email to Thunderbird. If I now convert from dual WinXP/Ubuntu to only run Ubuntu will ...
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X-notifier doesn't work in Chromium Browser

It just keeps checking in vain. Also cannot import or export data, but get this error I use the latest versions of both in Lubuntu 12.04. In Google Chrome it works. What could it be the problem? ...
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How to import an mbox file into the Pine or Alpine mail client?

I'm a light Alpine e-mail client user. If I navigate into ~/mail and run mail -f baz I'll get an expected list of old alpine/pine messages. Alpine doesn't use mbox. I added an mbox backup to that ...
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How to configure alpine for ionos mail using the .pinerc file?

In using alpine I'm composing messages and see: HOST: smtp.foo.bar ENTER LOGIN NAME [nicholas] : ^G Help ...
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Using Thunderbird to automatically backup my email account

I use Thunderbird to backup my web-based email account: I open Thunderbird and copy the mail messages from the Inbox to a local folder. Is there a way to do this automatically every day, so that I ...
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Can I get a combined inbox in Thunderbird?

I've setup Thunderbird (default in 12.04) with five mail accounts. Unfortunatly, every mail address is shown only with its own inbox, sent... How can I get a combined inbox for all addresses? I've ...
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