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This article mainly introduces "how to use mail to send Internet mail under the Linux system". In the daily operation, I believe that many people have doubts about how to use mail to send Internet mail under the Linux system. The editor consulted all kinds of materials and sorted out a simple and easy-to-use method of operation. I hope it will be helpful to answer the doubt of "how to use mail to send Internet mail under the Linux system". Next, please follow the editor to study!

Users who are used to the windows system may not have a good grasp of the linux system at first, and many functions may not be used very well. This paper introduces a small application of linux system: using mail to send Internet mail under Linux system. But before we introduce mail, let's take a look at the sendmail service.

The sendmail service on Red Hat is generally started automatically. You can view the status of the sendmail service with the following command:

Service sendmail status

If the sendmail service is not started, you can start it with the following command:

Service sendmail start

[note] restart the sendmail service every time you modify the network configuration (such as IP, hostname, etc.), otherwise sending email will fail.

The simplest syntax for sending an Internet message using the mail command is:

Mail username@address

Here is a simple example of sending a message:

Subjiect: is the subject of the email

The following is the body of the email

[note] here Cc: is the actual result after pressing the Ctrl+ D key, and does not belong to the content of the email.

To check whether the message was sent successfully, you can use the following command:

Sendmail-bp

If the message "/ var/spool/mqueueisempty" is displayed, the message is sent successfully. Open your own mailbox and have a look.

If other error messages are displayed, the message must have failed. What shall I do? In general, you need to restart the sendmail service.

This is why the author mentions sendmail services.

If you want to treat the contents of a text file as the contents of an email, you can use the following command:

Mail-s "subject" username@address

Or

Catfilename | mail-s "subject" username@address

The parameter-s indicates the subject of the message

For example:

Mail-s "Atestmailfile" xiaofan@126.com

The mail command cannot send attachments. If you want to send attachments, it is recommended to install the RPM package of the mutt mail client.

Use the-a parameter to specify the attachment, and the other parameters are similar to the mail command:

For example:

Mutt-s "testmutt"-a/root/testmailxiaofan@126.com

Mutt is a very powerful software.

Summary:

It is hoped that the method of using mail to send Internet mail under Linux system introduced in this article can be helpful to readers. More knowledge about linux system remains to be explored and learned by readers.

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