Sending Mail from the CLI

[Derek]

As it has been said it depends if you have or have not sendmail installed
and running, just try the following:

#Compress and archive what you want to send:
tar -czf destfile.tar.gz /path/to/whateveryouwanttosend
#Send an email with the file attached
echo | mutt -s subjectoftheemail -a /path/to/destfile.tar.gz
recipient at domain.net

I execute these two lines in a file as cron script to send me daily a small
backup. Note I've to use "sudo" before each line due the permissions in the
files involved.

I hope it helps!


On 2/26/07, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
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> Hi Folks!
>
> I am connected to my home from work using an SSH terminal.
>
> I would like to compress a file and send it to an e-mail address from the
> CLI.
>
> How do I do that? I know it's possible....
>
> Thanks!
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