How to send email from Terminal

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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

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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" [email protected] <<< "how are you?"<br>

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If all you need is a subject line  as in an alert message  simply do   mailx -s  This is all she wrote   lt   dev null  myself myaddress

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If you want to attach a file on Linux  echo  mail content    mailx -s  email subject  -a attachment txt username stackoverflow com

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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  quot hello quot   quot example example com quot   lt  lt EOF hello world EOF  This will send an email to example example com with the subject hello and the message  Hello World

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Probably the simplest way is to use curl for this  there is no need to install any additional packages and it can be configured directly in a request   Here is an example using gmail smtp server   curl --url  smtps   smtp gmail com 465  --ssl-reqd     --mail-from  from-email gmail com      --mail-rcpt  to-email gmail com      --user  from-email gmail com YourPassword      -T  lt  echo -e  From  from-email gmail com nTo  to-email gmail com nSubject  Curl Test n nHello

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echo  this is the body    mail -s  this is the subject   to address

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For SMTP hosts and Gmail I like to use Swaks -  https   easyengine io tutorials mail swaks-smtp-test-tool   On a Mac    brew install swaks swaks --to user example com --server smtp example com

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