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We’re going to kick it oldschool and learn how to read and send emails using the command line. Why commandline email? The answer to that question will differ from user to user. For some, it is just less distracting, while others are in the command line anyway.
A practical reason to use it is the efficiency once you get used to searching and indexing. A tool such as Grep, which uses regular expressions, is powerful when used properly. Most of the email clients for the command line have these search features and also index the mails so you can find what you want to read.
If you need to send any logs from your activities, you can also use most clients for this. Any results that you get can be parsed by other tools and then sent in any format you like.
Most emails are just a few paragraphs about a particular subject. Sometimes, though, you need to format your output before you put it in your email. This job takes a few other tools to get right and, in combination, can make reports and other creations look consistent. Despite being command line, you can read HTML and other formats via tools available for this purpose.
Mail in a nutshell
The email protocol is one of the oldest on the internet. It handles both the format of the mails and the communication between nodes. The use of email has been and still is vast – the Linux kernel still has a mailing list as the main developer communication tool.
Understanding the email protocols at a high level is useful when you want to maximise the benefit. With regular clients, everything is set up automatically. Old command-line tools require effort and knowledge. Sending and receiving are two different things!
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