bash - How to send email from Terminal?

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" "example@example.com" <<EOF hello world EOF 

This will send an email to example@example.com 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 'from-email@gmail.com' \   --mail-rcpt 'to-email@gmail.com' \   --user 'from-email@gmail.com:YourPassword' \   -T <(echo -e 'From: from-email@gmail.com\nTo: to-email@gmail.com\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 username@stackoverflow.com