email-using-linux-alias

Linux Command And Example

How to send email using aliases from Linux ?

• On Linux system aliases are available under /etc/aliases file
• Open file using sudo vi /etc/aliases
• File format is look like as follow.

  Name1:	Value1
  Name2:	Value2
  Name3:	Value3

• Now add your alias name and file which has list of email ids as follow
  • <aliasName>: :include:<fileName>
    eg.alertGroup: :include:/home/alpesh/emails.txt
    emails.txt file will have following content
    alpesh@yahoo.com
    alpesh1@yahoo.com
    alpesh2@yahoo.com
    ...
• Now to test this just type the following command
  echo "Hello This is body text" | mutt -s "Send email using alias" alertGroup@localhost
  Note: for sending email you must have installed a mutt client.