send mails from command line

mail-command-line.sh

#http://www.binarytides.com/linux-mail-command-examples/
apt-get install mailutils
#Use
$ mail -s "Hello World" someone@example.com
Cc: 
Hi Peter
How are you
I am fine
Good Bye
<Ctrl+D>

#Specify the FROM name and address
echo "This is the message body" | mail -s "This is the subject" mail@example.com -aFrom:sender@example.com

#Send mail with attachments
apt-get install mutt
#Simple
echo "This is mutt from universe" | mutt -s "This is mutts subject" someone@example.com

#
mutt -s "Subject" -a /path/to/file -- user@example.com < home/user/mailcontent.txt
&#91;/term&#93;
According to the syntax of mutt options, it is necessary to separate the files and the recipients with a double dash "--". Also the "-a" option should be last one.
<h4>Send mail with bash/shell scripts</h4>

This example demonstrates how the output of a command can be used as the message in the email.
Here is an easy shell script that reports disc usage over mail.

[pre]
#!/bin/bash
du -sh | mail -s "disk usage report" user@yourmaildomain.com
[/pre]

Open a new file and add the lines above to that file, save it and run on your box. You will receive an email that contains "du -sh" output.

<h3>Read mails</h3>

This is not something interesting and you would not be doing this in a real life scenario. 

###Maildir-utils command###
apt-get install maildir-utils
mu find from:william subject:report