Ubuntu14.04 + mutt + msmtp configure the command line mail client in linux, muttmsmtp

Ubuntu14.04 + mutt + msmtp configure the command line mail client in linux, muttmsmtp

Install software msmtp mutt

apt-get install -y msmtp mutt

Configure msmtp

After the installation is complete, configure msmtp. The default configuration file varies with the operating system version.msmtp --version.

# msmtp --versionmsmtp version 1.4.31Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnuTLS/SSL library: GnuTLSAuthentication library: GNU SASLSupported authentication methods:plain scram-sha-1 cram-md5 gssapi external digest-md5 login ntlmIDN support: enabledNLS: enabled, LOCALEDIR is /usr/share/localeKeyring support: noneSystem configuration file name: /etc/msmtprcUser configuration file name: /root/.msmtprcCopyright (C) 2013 Martin Lambers and others.This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms ofthe GNU General Public License 

Here we use/etc/msmtprcTo set the global configuration of the machine. Do not worry about the original configuration file. replace it with the following configuration file.

# Set default values for all following accounts.defaults# The SMTP server of the provider.account  defaulthost smtp.163.comfrom xxx@163.comauth loginuser xxx@163.compassword xxxpassowrdtls offsyslog on

Now msmtp is configured. You can use more detailed configurations.man msmtpTo get help. Finally, there is a configuration example.

Configure mutt

There are also two mutt configuration files.

~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc    User configuration file./etc/Muttrc    System-wide configuration file.

Similarly, we use global configuration.

Set sendmail = "/usr/bin/msmtp" # Your msmtp command path set use_from = yesset realname = "xxx@163.com" # Here you set your sender alias, it may not be the email address set editor = "vim"

Test email sending

df -h |mutt -s "useage of hd" xxx@163.com

Use the client to receive the following email content:

Useage of hdxxx@163.com to xxx detailed information 05: 28 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use % Mounted on/dev/mapper/ubuntu -- vg-root 95G 2.1G 88G 3%/none 4.0 K 0 4.0 K 0%/sys/fs/cgroupudev 3.9G 4.0 K 3.9G 1%/devtmpfs 799 M 552 K 798 M 1%/runnone 5.0 M 0 5.0 M 0%/run/locknone 3.9G 0 3.9G 0%/run/shmnone 100 M 0 100 M 0%/run/user/dev/sda1 236 M 37 M 187 M 17%/boot

ConfigurationnagiosThe alarm email is also used.mutt. In command. cfg of nagiosmailReplace the commandmutt

# 'notify-host-by-email' command definitiondefine command{        command_name    notify-host-by-email        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /usr/bin/mutt -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$        }# 'notify-service-by-email' command definitiondefine command{        command_name    notify-service-by-email        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n" | /usr/bin/mutt -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$        }