How to send email from Terminal?

Question

echo "this is the body" | mail -s "this is the subject" "to@address"

Go into Terminal and type man mail for help.

You will need to set SMTP up:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20081217161612647

See also:

http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/09/send-mail-over-your-network.html

Eg:

mail -s "hello" "[email protected]" <<EOF
hello
world
EOF

This will send an email to [email protected] with the subject hello and the message

Hello

World

Probably the simplest way is to use curl for this, there is no need to install any additional packages and it can be configured directly in a request.

Here is an example using gmail smtp server:

curl --url 'smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465' --ssl-reqd \
  --mail-from '[email protected]' \
  --mail-rcpt '[email protected]' \
  --user '[email protected]:YourPassword' \
  -T <(echo -e 'From: [email protected]\nTo: [email protected]\nSubject: Curl Test\n\nHello')

If all you need is a subject line (as in an alert message) simply do:

mailx -s "This is all she wrote" < /dev/null "myself@myaddress"

If you want to attach a file on Linux

echo 'mail content' | mailx -s 'email subject' -a attachment.txt [email protected]

in the terminal on your mac os or linux os type this code

mail -s (subject) (receiversEmailAddress)  <<< "how are you?"

for an example try this

mail -s "hi" [email protected] <<< "how are you?"<br>

For SMTP hosts and Gmail I like to use Swaks -> https://easyengine.io/tutorials/mail/swaks-smtp-test-tool/

On a Mac:

1. brew install swaks
2. swaks --to [email protected] --server smtp.example.com