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3.20.16 mailutils send

Reads an RFC-822 message from a file and sends it over to a specified SMTP server. The syntax is:

mailutils send [options] host file

where host defines the SMTP server through which to send the message, and file is the name of the input file containing the message. For example, to send a message from file input.msg using SMTP service at localhost, one would write:

$ mailutils send localhost input.msg

The host argument can be an IP address, hostname, or a valid SMTP URL.

The following command line options are understood:

-F address

--from=address

Supplies envelope sender address.

-T address

--rcpt=address

Supplies envelope recipient address. It can be specified multiple times.

-t

--read-recipients

Instructs the program to read recipient email addresses from the message ‘To:’, ‘Cc:’, and ‘Bcc:’ headers.