Comments on: Sending email or mail with attachment from command or shell prompt

By: Bhargav tripathi

Bhargav tripathi — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:12:12 +0000

Hi,

I am using script for diskspcae in linux server and output is like alert that all team member should get mail as alert, when i install mutt i.e. up2date mutt …..command shows like temporary failure in name resolution so what should i do pls kindly help for same. ?????

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:58:55 +0000

Use mutt -e “set from=your@mail.jo” -s “test Mail” -a /home/jesper/Y.tar gvzfs@yahoo.dk < t.txt

By: Gail

Gail — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:33:09 +0000

Hi experts
I would like to send e-mail using command-line-mutt; but I’d like it to read the recipients from the “To:” header in the file (in mailx, there is such an option: “-t”, like this: mailx -t < filename, and then you don't need to specify recipients on the command line). How can it be done in mutt?

By: Ajay Shilwant

Ajay Shilwant — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:02:54 +0000

hi, friends….
it’s possible to add date in subject…… dynamically…..

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:52:27 +0000

Using Vim:

Write all of the emails separated by commas to a text file, compose an email in mutt (specify yourself as the recipient), write the subject, etc. When you’re finished, write and quit, then hit E to edit the headers. Scroll down to CC: and then type :r . Your addresses should appear on the next line, so scroll to that line and hit backspace. Ta-da! Magic. :)

By: jidnesh_b

jidnesh_b — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:47:33 +0000

You can define a variable with recipient mentioned as coma separated values.

Emails=xyz@abc.com, pqr@abc.com
mutt -s “Test Mail” -a attach1 -a attach2 -a attach3 — $Emails

By: nate

nate — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:09:34 +0000

How can I get MUTT to send as an HTML email? I can attatch the html document but I want to have it viewed as soon as you look at it.. instead of seing all the text HTML tags.

By: squeezeoj

squeezeoj — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:51:43 +0000

I had a similar problem: it would run from the command line while I was logged-in but running it as a cron job always failed. After some testing I decided the problem had to do with not being the same user under cron as I was at the command line. I’m not sure about the exact steps to fix it, but I’d look in that direction.

By: rocket raja

rocket raja — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:23:09 +0000

Grr.. mutt is not working when i put my script in cron..!!

By: meddy

meddy — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:21:44 +0000

hulo,i hav just instaled mutt but dont even no how to start it,how to configure it 2 read from mi email account,ani help will b apreciated\

By: JULIO VEIRA

JULIO VEIRA — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:24:45 +0000

The mutt program is super cool this line is part of a script I did that make a backup of all my SQL Server Info and send it to my email. Because I have a High protection for Spam this email always go to junk. I also got a POP3 account in my work and there I have no problem also I receive it in my iPhone 3GS. This is the hell of a tool. THanks for sharing this with us.

#Email will be send to my yahoo.com account.
mutt -s "MySql Server Database backup files" myemail@yahoo.com < /home/julio/dbbak/message.txt -a /home/julio/dbbak/mydbs.zip
#Email will be send to my pop3 company account.
mutt -s "MySql Server Database backup files" myemail@companypop3account.com < /home/julio/dbbak/message.txt -a /home/julio/dbbak/mydbs.zip

By: SqueezeOJ

SqueezeOJ — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:46:41 +0000

Answered my own question!

Need to use Single Quotes rather than Double Quotes around $mySUBJECT. For example this works:

#!/bin/bash
mySUBJECT=”No Errors in Log File”
mutt -s '$mySUBJECT' me@mycompany.com < Nightly-Backup-Log.txt
exit 0

Hope it helps someone!

By: SqueezeOJ

SqueezeOJ — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:41:12 +0000

How do I use a Variable Subject. For example:

#!/bin/bash
mySUBJECT="No Errors in Log File"
mutt -s "$mySUBJECT" you@example.com < Nightly-Backup-Log.txt
exit 0

This always hangs and thus fails. But typing-in the same string where $mySUBJECT is works fine. Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:16:22 +0000

Is it possible to specify a different name for an attachment than the actual file name? For instance, we have many programs the call the mutt command and send files with extensions that our recipient’s PCs don’t recognize. It would be nice to be able to rename the attachment in mutt without having to actually modify the source file.

Thanks,

Martin

By: Julio Virea

Julio Virea — Sun, 01 May 2011 18:35:11 +0000

Check your bulk mail. I am using it and my emails when are sent out of the computer goes in the “from: www-data” so yahoo take the email as spam and if your settings in yahoo.com is to delete all spam then is deleting it. Try using another email a POP account. It will work like charm.

By: Bartox

Bartox — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:31:40 +0000

Actually I was looking at the wrong place. The attachment size limit is not controlled by mutt else the smpt server itself, in my case postfix.

If somebody is having this same issue, just go the postfix config file at /etc/postfix/main.cf (on RedHat based kernels) and look for this directive: message_size_limit (or add it to the end if it’s not in there) and just increase the value to: message_size_limit = 20480000 (20 MB for example).

Hope that helps.

By: Edmund

Edmund — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:55:03 +0000

can this run as a portable application from a UNC path

By: Edmund

Edmund — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:52:15 +0000

Ha Ha Ha ! excuse me, Not laughing at you but that was just a suggestion, you obviously kno much more than me.

By: Bartox

Bartox — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:27:24 +0000

Yes, I forgot to mention it’s a file compressed with LZMA algorithm which is the highest compression level around. My server OS is Linux/RedHat. I just need to know if mutt is capable to send bigger than ~10 MB attachment, the current backup file that I am getting is about ~7 Mb but with headers it just become into a 10 Mb. As I said I research about it, I read the config file and nothing yet.
Appreciate your help.

By: Edmund

Edmund — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:46:27 +0000

Is it zipped?