Mail command in Terminal

lukestroh · Dec 2, 2013

I used to know a command in Terminal that began with the command "mail (email address to whom one is sending to)"

this still works, and then comes up with the prompt, "Subject"

after entering the subject, one can type the body of the email.
My question is, how does one end this command? I forgot how to end the message and send it. Thanks!

dean1012 · Dec 2, 2013

Usually with a . on it's own line

jpeezy · Dec 2, 2013

Try ctrl-d

cerberusss · Dec 2, 2013

IIRC, I used to do something like

$ mail -s "some subject" johnny@example.com < echo "hi there this is the email body"

Weaselboy · Dec 2, 2013

lukestroh said:
I used to know a command in Terminal that began with the command "mail (email address to whom one is sending to)"

this still works, and then comes up with the prompt, "Subject"

after entering the subject, one can type the body of the email.
My question is, how does one end this command? I forgot how to end the message and send it. Thanks!

According to this article you just type EOF and hit return.

ElectricSheep · Dec 2, 2013

Weaselboy said:
According to this article you just type EOF and hit return.

That is only when you use the << shell redirect to specify an explicit EOF token (in that case, "EOF").

Otherwise, you use ctrl-d to terminate the input and finish the command.

HenryAZ · Dec 2, 2013

dean1012 said:
Usually with a . on it's own line

That's how I have always done it
.

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