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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers BASH script that sends text message or email Post 302437636 by msb65 on Thursday 15th of July 2010 04:27:03 PM
Old 07-15-2010
Hi Jim,

Thank you very much for the reply! A few questions:

- I didn't appear to have mailx installed. When I typed mailx the following was returned:

Code:
mike@mikebrown-desktop:~/Desktop$ mailx
The program 'mailx' can be found in the following packages:
 * heirloom-mailx
 * mailutils
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>

I installed mailutils (GNU Mailutils - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)). Was that best option? Supposedly it has replaced mailx.

- Do you have any advice on how to use a unix mail function to check mail at a specific email address. I wonder if it is possible to receive an email from my script, respond to that email, and have the script perform a task depending on my response. Thanks again for your help.

Mike

---------- Post updated at 03:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:50 PM ----------

I also wonder if there is additional configurations I need to do because I have not received any of the emails I sent myself.

Mike
 

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messages.mailutils

MESSAGES.MAILUTILS(1)						   User Commands					     MESSAGES.MAILUTILS(1)

NAME

       messages.mailutils - count the number of messages in a mailbox

SYNOPSIS

       messages.mailutils [OPTION...] [mailbox...]

DESCRIPTION

       GNU messages -- count the number of messages in a mailbox

       -q, -s, --[no-]quiet, --silent
	      only display number of messages

	      Global debugging settings

       --debug-level=LEVEL
	      set Mailutils debugging level

       --[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages

	      Configuration handling

       --config-file=FILE
	      load this configuration file; implies --no-config

       --config-lint
	      check configuration file syntax and exit

       --config-verbose
	      verbosely log parsing of the configuration files

       --no-config
	      do not load site and user configuration files

       --no-site-config
	      do not load site-wide configuration file

       --no-user-config
	      do not load user configuration file

       --set=PARAM=VALUE
	      set configuration parameter

	      Informational options

       --config-help
	      show configuration file summary

       --show-config-options
	      show compilation options

       -?, --help
	      give this help list

       --usage
	      give a short usage message

       -V, --version
	      print program version

       Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.
       GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2007-2017 Free Software Foundation, inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

	      info mailutils

       should give you access to the complete manual.
       You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
       https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
       Please  note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailu-
       tils upstream authors.

FSF
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