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sendEmail(1)

sendEmail1

Lightweight, command line smtp email client

Usage

SendEmail -f ADDRESS [options]

Options

-f ADDRESS

from (sender) email address

* At least one recipient required via -t, -cc, or -bcc * Message body required via -m, STDIN, or -o message-file=FILE

Common:

-t ADDRESS [ADDR ...]

to email address(es)

-u SUBJECT

message subject

-m MESSAGE

message body

-s SERVER[:PORT]

smtp mail relay, default is localhost:25

-S [SENDMAIL_PATH]

use local sendmail utility (default: /usr/bin/sendmail) instead of network MTA

Optional:

-a

FILE [FILE ...] file attachment(s)

-cc

ADDRESS [ADDR ...] cc email address(es)

-bcc ADDRESS [ADDR ...]

bcc email address(es)

Paranormal:

-xu USERNAME

authentication user (for SMTP authentication)

-xp PASSWORD

authentication password (for SMTP authentication)

-l

LOGFILE log to the specified file

-v

verbosity, use multiple times for greater effect

-q

be quiet (no stdout output)

-o NAME=VALUE

see extended help topic "misc" for details

Help:

--help TOPIC

The following extended help topics are available:

addressing

explain addressing and related options

message

explain message body input and related options

misc

explain -xu, -xp, and others

networking

explain -s, etc

output

explain logging and other output options

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 8 (Jessie): the text shown here
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
  • Debian 5.0 (Lenny) to Debian 4.0 (Etch)

-S since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <http://bugs.debian.org/sendemail>

Author

sendemail was written by Brandon Zehm <[email protected]> .

This manual page was written by Brandon Zehm and improved by Alejandro Garrido Mota <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

From sendemail 1.56-5.2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.