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Mailutils is a swiss army knife of electronic mail handling. It offers a rich set of utilities and daemons for processing the e-mail.

Mailutils is a swiss army knife of electronic mail handling. It offers a rich set of utilities and daemons for processing the e-mail.

All Mailutils programs are able to operate on mailboxes of any existing format, ranging from standard UNIX maildrops, through maildir and up to remote mailboxes, which are transparently accessed using IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP.

Mailutils is oriented toward three kinds of audiences: regular users, system administrators, and developers of email-handling software.

Source:GNU Mailutils

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How can I verify the integrity of an mbox archive from the command line?

I have a large mbox file backup from gmail. It's over 5GB, and gets updated with new messages every night via a cron job. I would like the cron job to also check the validity of the archive, to make sure it's still a valid mbox format. Is there a…
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Gnu Mailutils configuration to directly operate on maildir?

I'd like to configure the GNU Mailutils mail program so that it operates on an already existing maildir directory. Currently my mailutils.rc looks like this: mailbox{ mailbox-pattern "maildir:///home/${user}/Maildir"; mailbox-type…
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How to re-run `mailutils` post-install script after making the wrong choice?

I'm running Ubuntu server 22.04, and installed mailutils. At or near the end of my first installation, I got a "window" (ncurses??) that popped up in the terminal, asking what type of install I wanted to do. Being ignorant, I went with the default…
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Why does /usr/bin/mail ignore aliases in $HOME/.mailrc

When I send email using /usr/bin/mail on the command line (Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit), it does not pay attention to any aliases in my .mailrc file. Does anybody know how to fix this? To reproduce the problem: Put an alias in $HOME/.mailrc alias foo…
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Unable to install mailutils

I'm trying to install mailutils in Ubuntu. I'm getting this error: $ sudo apt-get install mailtuils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package mailtuils
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Postconf errors (valid_hostname) after install mail-utils

mail-utils did a number on my system. I would like to get my system back to before mail-utils was installed. I tried un-installing it and posting at other Ubuntu forums. It is messing with my update,clean,and remove script. postconf: warning:…
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Filering received mail by aliases file ubuntu postfix mail server

I have setup an Ubuntu mail server with /etc/aliases. In the aliases file there is an alias all: group1, group2, group3, where each of the groups is defined on its own. The problem is that due to the importance and the number of people influenced…
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Error when installing mailutils on Ubuntu 16.04

When we try to install, remove, update mailutils we always have same error with status 'half-installed'. Can help me? The output of: sudo apt install mailutils is: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state…
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Hostname in postfix changing automatically during installation

I was installing tlp for ubuntu. During installation a dialog box for changing postfix configuration had popped up, and I went with the default options, setting the hostname as Jayant. Now, when I try to install or uninstall any package, an error…
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How to send e-mail on startup on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

I have tried a few things so far but with no success. I modified crontab and and preceeded the command with @reboot mail.mailutils ... I also created a .sh script, changed permission, added it to init.d modified configuration with sysv-rc-config…
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can I send my gmail using mailutils from my terminal

I want to set up mailutils on my terminal problem is that I don't want to create another email account. My question is, is it possible to use my gmail from my terminal ?
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How to iterate eml file with mailutils?

How would a directory of .eml files be iterated? nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ mail -f foomail/foo.eml "/home/nicholas/foomail/foo.eml": 0 messages nicholas@mordor:~$ Whereas, I'd like to see a list to select from.
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How do I configure a command line email client to send and receive email from the command line in Ubuntu?

I have been exploring command line email clients for a while now and it is not clear to me which would be the most standard tool and set-up. I want to send emails from the command line without opening a specific GUI application like Mutt, and I also…
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Can't install mailutils Ubuntu 18.04

It seems like I can't install mailutils in Ubuntu 18.04. It's a dependency error and I can't find about this issue also somewhere else. Command: sudo apt install mailutils Output: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mailutils : Depends:…
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ssmtp, mailutils and GMail how to set username?

Ubuntu 18.04, ssmtp installed, mailutils installed and everything works, can send through gmail. My problem is that the messages when received appear to be from "Root (my-real-email@gmail.com)" I am trying to change "root" to a name that wont set…
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