Comments on: Command Line Email on Ubuntu (mailx version)

By: Kumar

Kumar — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:52:44 +0000

How to make it work with the new certificates. How to use the perm file.

By: adkein

adkein — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:59:09 +0000

Thank you!!

Two hours lost yesterday trying to get this happening, then I found this.

The fetching of the cert file is out of date, however, I had to scrounge and eventually found it here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~suriya/UT-wireless/ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.txt

By: Andres

Andres — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:32:32 +0000

Thanks for the guide! I also coudldn’t get the .crt file to work, but was able to get it working with the .pem file (like a previous commenter). I hope this is also secure!

I also had to use single quotes in the subject line rather than double.

By: vrc

vrc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:17:16 +0000

hi…
i just did follow the steps as suggested by u by ended up getting

send-mail: account default not found in /home/rakshith/.msmtprc
Can’t send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 78

can u please help me out…
thanks……..

By: Pyro-X

Pyro-X — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:34:06 +0000

Thank you very much for your howto. It worked fine except for the certificate not named the same way at the current certificates file (https://www.verisign.com/support/thawte-roots.zip)

I made it work using this perm file from the zip:
Thawte SSLWeb Server Roots/thawte Premium Server CA/Thawte Premium Server CA.pem

Thanks again

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:05:49 +0000

Thank you so much for this info. Unlike other HOW-TOs, this one worked! Now I can send mail successfully from the command line. My next step is to get my scripts to use it as successfully.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:46:27 +0000

Thanks a lot for this. I think that a couple of slashes are missing in a line. Should be:

$ cp Thawte\ Server\ Roots/ThawtePremiumServerCA_b64.txt ThawtePremiumServerCA.crt