Mutt and Mail Commands Example in Unix/Linux

Mutt and Mail both commands are similarly and very powerful to send an email from the system,

Mutt : It's a Mail User Agent, small but powerful and highly comfortable for Mail client in Unix/Linux operating system. Also support color terminal, threaded sorting, MIME, POP3 and IMAP.

Can send a message to multiple users on a single command,

Install mutt package by yum command

or

Download mutt from below URL and install it.
http://www.mutt.org/download.html

Send Simple Mail:

echo ""Type Email content"" | mutt  -s "Subject of Email" -- username@thelinuxfaq.com

Send Mail with Attachment:

echo "Type Email content" | mutt -a "/root/report.txt" -s "Subject of Email" -- username@thelinuxfaq.com

or

mutt  -s "Test email"  someone@somedomain.com -a file.txt < MessageBody

Mail send to Multiple User:

echo "Type Email content" | mutt -a "/root/report.txt" -s "Subject of Email" -- username@domainname.com  mynameis@gmail.com

Mail : To send a message to multiple users on a single command , mail can be invoked with message details

Install Mail:
 
Send Simple Mail:

mail -s "xxx" to_address@hostname.com

or

echo "Type your body content" | mail -s "Mail subject" toemail@hostname.com

Mail with Cc:

Also send a message with carbon copy(Cc). Once typed the command : mail -s "test email from server" toemail@hostname.com  press enter then type your message content and press CTRL + D,  it will ask Cc:

mail -s "test email from server" toemailid@hostname.com

type message content



Cc: user@hostname.com

Send Message with Attachment:

mail -s "Subject Name " toemail@hostname.com < body.txt

or

(uuencode /root/userssys.txt; echo "Type Body of Message ") | mail -s 'Message Subjects' toemail@hostname.com

To send multiple user just give a space type another Email Id's.