CentOS System installs MAILX and realizes the method of sending mail

System:
CentOS 6.4 default mail is pointing to Mailx
CentOS 5 Series is not clear

Required Packages: mailx-12.4.tar.bz2

1. Uninstall SendMail or Postfix

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Yum Remove sendmail-y Yum Remove postfix-y

2. Download and install MAILX

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wget ftp://ftp.lt.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/mailx-12.4.tar.bz2 Tar jxf mailx-12.4.tar.bz2 && CD mailx-12.4

If unable to extract, please check that there is no installation bzip2, if not installed, perform yum-y install bzip2
After the decompression is finished, execute:

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Make Make install Ucbinstall=/usr/bin/install Cp/etc/mail.rc/etc/mail.rc.bak Cat >/etc/nail.rc<<eof Set from=youname@rekfan.com Set smtp=smtp.rekfan.com Set smtp-auth-user=youname@rekfan.com Set Smtp-auth-password=youpassword Set Smtp-auth=login Eof

Send format

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Mailx-s Subject User@xxx.com < Message_file

If the message content is stored in a msg file, you can use the following method:

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Mailx-s "Test Mail" zdd@163.com < msg Or Cat msg | Mailx-s "Test Mail" zdd@163.com

Separated by commas between multiple recipients

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Cat msg | Mailx-s "Test Mail" zdd@163.com,zdd2@163.com,zdd2@163.com

You can also enter message content directly from the command line:

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Mailx-s "Test Mail" zdd@163.com

The above command will enter the command line input state, you can enter the content, press the Ctrl+d key to end the input.

Other options

-r Specifies the sender

-C Designated CC person

-B designated Secret sender

Separated by commas between multiple recipients