Commands tagged mail

This can be used to delete or archive old mails. In fact, for archiving its a bit different, you need to archive mails with any tools (e.g archivemail), and then deleting (if you want!).

Here we use -path ".*/cur/*" to avoid files limit in bash globbing and to search in any inbox (e.g .mymail .spam .whatever).

! -newermt "1 week ago" can be read: All files which is older than "1 week ago", adapt it in consequence.

Usage: mailme message

This is a useful function if you want to get notified about process completion or failure. e.g.

Used it on daily basis, not sure if it's any better than the OPs version, tho'

One advantage is - you can replace 'bash' at the end of the line with eg. cat - to check if the generated command is OK.

dsniff is general purpose password sniffer, it handles *lots* of different protocols, but it also handles tcp-style expressions for limiting analyzed traffic - so I can limit it to work on pop3 only.

The command is useful for monitoring the use of the boxes and their connection IP.

Result file "sniff" is readable with GUI program "wireshark" or through CLI with the command:

tcpdump -f "sniff" -XX

Copies an entire hierarchy of mailboxes from the named POP3/IMAP/etc. source to the named destination. Mailboxes are created on the destination as needed. NOTE: The 'mailutil' is Washington's University 'mailutil' (apt-get install uw-mailutils). More examples

If you use the utility in the first, append -v|-d flag(s) to the end the commands above (man mailutil).

This version uses netcat to check a particular service.

For some reason the 2&>1 does not work for me, but the shorter stdout/stderr redirection >& works perfectly (Ubuntu 10.04).

Full Command:

You'll need googlecl and python-gdata. First setup google cl via:

Then give your PC access

Then do the command, save it or use this one to dump it in the cone-address.txt file in your home dir:

Then import into cone.

It filters out multiple emails, and contacts with no email that have N/A. (Picasa photo persons without email for example...)

This will send the web page at $u to recipient@example.com . To send the web page to oneself, recipient@example.com can be replaced by $(whoami) .

The "charset" is UTF-8 here, but any alternative charset of your choice would work.

`wget -O - -o /dev/null $u` may be considered instead of `curl $u` .

On some systems the complete path to sendmail may be necessary, for instance /sys/pkg/libexec/sendmail/sendmail for some NetBSD.

Do a recursive (-r) search with grep for all files where your old mail address is mentioned (-l shows only the file names) and use sed to replace it with your new address. Works with other search/replacement patterns too.

It's very common to have cron jobs that send emails as their output, but the From: address is whatever account the cron job is running under, which is often not the address you want replies to go to. Here's a way to change the From: address right on the command line.

What's happening here is that the "--" separates the options to the mail client from options for the sendmail backend. So the -f and -F get passed through to sendmail and interpreted there. This works on even on a system where postfix is the active mailer - looks like postfix supports the same options.

I think it's possible to customize the From: address using mutt as a command line mailer also, but most servers don't have mutt preinstalled.

on this way we can define the body too

as unixmonkey7109 pointed out, first awk parse replaces three steps.

It's not a big line, and it *may not* work for everybody, I guess it depends on the detail of access_log configuration in your httpd.conf. I use it as a prerotate command for logrotate in httpd section so it executes before access_log rotation, everyday at midnight.

Alternative to the ping check if your firewall blocks ping. Uses curl to get the landing page silently, or fail with an error code. You can probably do this with wget as well.

Joker wants an email if the Brand X server is down. Set a cron job for every 5 mins with this line and he gets an email when/if a ping takes longer than 3 seconds.

if "mail -a" fail, try "mutt -a" or "nail -a"

uuencode the file to appear as an attachment

This just reads in a local file and sends it via email. Works with text or binary. *Requires* local mail server.