Linux cli command mail

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NAME 🖥️ mail 🖥️

process mail messages

SYNOPSIS

mail.mailutils [OPTION…] [address…]
mail.mailutils [OPTION…] [OPTION…] [file]
mail.mailutils [OPTION…] –file [OPTION…] [file]
mail.mailutils [OPTION…] –file=file [OPTION…]

DESCRIPTION

GNU mail – process mail messages. If -f or –file is given, mail operates on the mailbox named by the first argument, or the user’s mbox, if no argument given.

-A, –attach=FILE
attach FILE

-a, –append=HEADER: VALUE append given header to the message being sent

–[no-]alternative
force multipart/alternative content type

–attach-fd=FD
attach from file descriptor FD

–content-filename=NAME
set the Content-Disposition filename parameter for the next –attach option

–content-name=NAME
set the Content-Type name parameter for the next –attach option

–content-type=TYPE
set content type for subsequent –attach options

-E, –exec=COMMAND
execute COMMAND

-e, –exist
return true if mail exists

–encoding=NAME
set encoding for subsequent –attach options

-F, –byname
save messages according to sender

-H, –headers
write a header summary and exit

-i, –ignore
ignore interrupts

-M, –[no-]mime
compose MIME messages

-N, –nosum
do not display initial header summary

-n, –norc
do not read the system mailrc file

-p, –print, –read
print all mail to standard output

-q, –quit
cause interrupts to terminate program

-r, –return-address=ADDRESS
use address as the return address when sending mail

-s, –subject=SUBJ
send a message with the given SUBJECT

–[no-]skip-empty-attachments
skip attachments with empty body

-t, –to
read recipients from the message header

-u, –user=USER
operate on USER’s mailbox

Global debugging settings

–debug-level=LEVEL
set Mailutils debugging level

–[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages

Configuration handling

–config-file=FILE
load this configuration file; implies –no-config

–config-lint
check configuration file syntax and exit

–config-verbose
verbosely log parsing of the configuration files

–no-config
do not load site and user configuration files

–no-site-config
do not load site-wide configuration file

–no-user-config
do not load user configuration file

–set=PARAM=VALUE
set configuration parameter

Informational options

–config-help
show configuration file summary

–show-config-options
show compilation options

-?, –help
give this help list

–usage
give a short usage message

-V, –version
print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007-2024 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

info mailutils

should give you access to the complete manual.
You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.

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