Read mail centos 7
To read mail on CentOS 7, you can use the mail
command or a more advanced email client like mutt
or msmtp
.
Using the mail
command:
- Open a terminal as the user who has the email account.
- Type
mail
and press Enter. This will display a list of available emails. - To read a specific email, type the number of the email and press Enter.
- To quit the mail reader, type
q
and press Enter.
Using mutt
:
- Install
mutt
if you haven't already:sudo yum install mutt
- Open a terminal as the user who has the email account.
- Type
mutt
and press Enter. This will start themutt
email client. - Use the arrow keys to navigate through the email list.
- To read a specific email, press Enter on the email you want to read.
- To quit
mutt
, typeq
and press Enter.
Using msmtp
:
- Install
msmtp
if you haven't already:sudo yum install msmtp
- Open a terminal as the user who has the email account.
- Type
msmtp
and press Enter. This will start themsmtp
email client. - Use the arrow keys to navigate through the email list.
- To read a specific email, press Enter on the email you want to read.
- To quit
msmtp
, typeq
and press Enter.
Note: If you have multiple email accounts configured on your system, you may need to specify the account you want to read mail from using the -a
option with the mail
command or the --account
option with mutt
or msmtp
. For example: mail -a [email protected]
or mutt [email protected]
.