How to send a mail using sendmail utility in Linux?

Question

How to send a mail using sendmail utility? Example would help?

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Answer 1

Sendmail is a most popular smtp server used in most of Linux/Unix distribution. sendmail allows to send email from command line.

Create a file using following content

# vim /tmp/my_email.txt
Subject: <Subject>

<Email Content>

Now send email using following command

# sendmail user@example.com  < /tmp/my_email.txt

I hope it should help....

Answer 2

Using 'mail' Command we can sent the e-mails. mail command is most popular command to send emails from Linux terminal. Use few of below examples to send email.

# mail -s "Test Email" user@example.com < /dev/null
-s is used for subject

To send email with attachment.
# mail -a /opt/backup.sql -s "Backup File" user@example.com < /dev/null
-a is used for attachments

Also we can add comma separated emails to send email to multiple recipients together.
# mail -s "Test Email" user@example.com,user2@example.com < /dev/null