How I can send a simple mail from Ubuntu command line without giving the password for the email account which I'm sending to?
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If the question below worked, be sure to accept it by toggling the grey tick just beneath the answer's downvote button – TellMeWhy Nov 26 '15 at 10:23
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"The password for the account you're sending *to*"? No mail service asks the target account's password. O.o – muru Nov 26 '15 at 10:27
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@muru I think OP meant "without password for the email account I'm using"? – TellMeWhy Nov 26 '15 at 10:29
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1@DevRobot That's what I think too. But I wonder if they used some command which asked for some password which they mistook for the target account's pw. – muru Nov 26 '15 at 10:31
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sudo apt-get install mailutils
mail -s "Subject" email@email.com
Press enter and write the subject of your email. Use Ctrl+D to continue.
You will be asked if you want to mark a copy of the mail to any other address - you can skip that with Ctrl+D.
The email will now be sent to your chosen address.
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On 14.04, at least you must install the package
mailutilsfirst: The program 'mail' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:sudo apt-get install mailutils– Mark Kirby Nov 26 '15 at 09:34
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3sending mail whithout text typing, can do some nice things like df -h | mail -s "Disk Info" my@mail.com, redirect logs to your email sudo cat /var/log/syslog | mail -s "logs" my@mail.com. Just a suggestion... – shamsky Nov 26 '15 at 11:13