---
title: Mail
description: Overview of mail settings, and sending system mail.
published: true
date: 2022-10-12T16:28:10.053Z
tags: config, mail
editor: markdown
dateCreated: 2021-08-27T14:00:37.062Z
---

# Mail	
A bunch of stuff still use mail unfortunately.

Below are the deets on how to point Containers to the SMTP mailbox I set up, and how to send system mail.

## Container mail via SMTP

Use the following credentials:
```yml
host: mail.zoho.com
port: 587
username: "matan@pukeko.xyz"
password: "DjazsDaEzrU9"
sender: matan@pukeko.xyz
```
Port `465` with SSL should work, though untested.

## System mail via `sendmail`
To send email, you need two things:
- A local mail daemon (we use `postfix`).
- A mail command (we use `mailx`)

To send an acceptable (not pretty - acceptable) mail run:
`echo "[message body]" | mail -s "[subject]" -f "[from address]" [to address]`
Example: Tacocat!

`echo "tacocat" | mail --subject="Takahe's got something important to say" matanhorovitz@protonmail.com`
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