I want to send email with mail command, but it didn't work.
I use the following command :
mail -v -s "test" [email protected]
then the terminal will always wait and no response. Also, there is nothing in the /var/log/mail Can anyone help me ?
Thanks
By the way, my operating system is debian
After that command, the process running mail is waiting for input on stdin, that you should end with Ctrl-D (end of file).
You can also pipe or redirect or use a here document
Exemple of using a pipe:
date | mail -s "now is" [email protected]
Typing a message
mail -s "a message" [email protected]
body of your message
end it with Ctrl-D
Redirecting a file containing the body
mail -s "a message in file" [email protected] < mailbody.txt
Using a here document
mail -s "a here doc" [email protected] <<ENDMSG
this is the here doc
ended by the line below
ENDMSG
mail is an interactive program if you don't feed something into the standard input. Therefore you have to interactively enter some message body and finish the text by a line containing only a ..
E.g.:
mail -v -s "test" [email protected]
Some text
.
Or you could pipe some text into mail's standard input:
echo "some text" | mail -v -s "test" [email protected]
