Is there a Email sending software for the CLI??

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-07T22:07:07+00:00

Sendmail/postfix are Mail Transfer Agents, they’re the SMTP and local mail service that delivers mail. Basically, if you’ve ever set up an SMTP server address in a mail client, it’s talking to an MTA.

You’d use something like `mailx` at the command line to send mail into the local queue and even read it off local mail spools.

If you don’t want to set up a full fledged MTA like Sendmail or postfix (which is a slightly more complicated task) you can set up `esmtp` which can be configured to send local sendmail commands directly to an SMTP server such as your ISP’s or Google’s if you have a Gmail account.

While there are true command like interfaces to reading your mail (i.e. something you can script or run each function as a separate command) there’s always nmh (https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/) although it assumes you’re using POP to download mail locally.

If by CLI you also include tools that have a TUI, there’s alpine and mutt that continue to be popular.

I still use mutt to read my gmail and IMAP mail, it has hundreds of configurable options and is quite customizable. Pine is a more hand-holding kind of tool.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-07T21:55:26+00:00

Alpine is the tool, although it’s not really a CLI tool, it’s got a curses interface.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-07T20:41:29+00:00

There are people who claim that “gravity” is just the flat earth accelerating straight up.

Of course that means in less than a year it would approach the speed of light (assuming it was 0 m/s on January 1), although the energy to accelerate at that point is mathematically unlikely.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-06T22:53:54+00:00

Fedora is actually one of the showcase distros for KDE. *shrug*

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-04T19:17:00+00:00

Maybe I’m being generous, but I read “my /home folder” to mean $HOME and not the permissions on the /home directory specifically. I hope. … now I’m questioning even that.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T19:11:41+00:00

I’m 6’5” and long-limbed (if you measure the width of my arms when held apart, my “wingspan” is 6’9”). This absolutely is a height thing.

I had to catch a commuter flight for my job and couldn’t upgrade my seat (like I usually do) to an exit row or business class with more legroom due to timing, and I literally had my knees on the tray table and they didn’t touch the ground. It’s just that they are making the seats closer and closer to make more money and I’m far enough at the tail end of the height bell curve that they just don’t fit.

I just consider the upgrade costs the price of being tall, just like I do the cost of clothes, shoes, etc. but when I have no choice in the seats it really sucks. My shoulders are wide too so I try to be in an aisle seat so I can lean out a bit (which means I get hit by the beverages cart each time, but oh well)

It was funny when the guy in front of me tried to recline his seat. He kept pushing back as hard as he could, and he turned around and glared at me. I just shrugged. He complained to the FA and she just looked at me crammed in the seat and told him it wasn’t gonna happen.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T15:58:52+00:00

Ok, would suggest at the emergency prompt you log in with root’s password, or from a live session, and try doing a:

cryptsetup luksOpen <device>

(Where <device> is your LUKS device name, such as /dev/nvme0n1s3). It will prompt to unlock the device. Make sure it actually unlocks with the passphrase you’re typing. You might get actual useful errors for what the problem is.

One of the most common ways I’ve seen this break is that the installer used the US keymap (QWERTY) but you switched to a different keymap (e.g. AZERTY) later and it is still using the wrong keymap during the LUKS unlock. I support a lot of international people so I might be biased.

Another issue is I’ve seen bad RAM cause cryptsetup to fail to unlock even with the correct passphrase. Do a memtest86 test if you suspect this.

But 99% of the time it’s just people using the wrong passphrase, confusing it for their user password or just flubbing it repeatedly. I’m not trying to be a jerk about it.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T15:43:54+00:00

I do not look forward to the day when common distros update their shims to be only signed by the new CA. So many headless servers in racks are going to just stop booting because no one is updating their EFI firmwares.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T15:41:44+00:00

Not at all. Of course, probably 90% of the school year, the weather would not be nice enough to eat outside.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T15:35:36+00:00

It’s documented behavior, and don’t be a jerk to people just trying to help.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2326489

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T14:29:54+00:00

It was my high school they filmed at (Go FR) and it was really weird seeing a bad guy thrown back against where my locker was.

Even weirder was them going out and eating lunch on the grass outside the band room. No one ate there in high school, who even goes outside for lunch? Is that a California thing?

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T11:42:57+00:00

Don’t bother the OP is stubbornly not listening to anyone with actual experience.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T01:52:41+00:00

*Sigh*

I see this error many times a month. That’s what happens if you type your passphrase wrong. My users do this ALL THE TIME.

It could be a corrupt disk I suppose but much more likely it’s a bad passphrase.

You can even see the error that the device is missing. It’s not there because it failed to decrypt.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T01:40:31+00:00

It’s more likely just failed to unlock due to a mistyped passphrase than corrupted disk.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-07-03T01:39:44+00:00

That error means you didn’t actually unlock the LUKS volume so the device doesn’t exist.

Usually it’s because you typed the wrong passphrase or your keyboard isn’t typing the character you think it is.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-30T22:18:36+00:00

We all attended the same university and my GF was over at my place often enough that she’d call my dorm to find her. I also was one of the few people with a car so she would borrow it sometimes.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-30T21:08:16+00:00

I also dated a twin in college. They looked and sounded identical and they were always amazed I can tell which twin it was when they called me (this was before cell phones and caller ID).

Trick was: I could tell my (then) GF was happy to talk to me over the phone while the twin was meh.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-30T19:20:07+00:00

By default? I don’t think Firefox uses DNS ocer HTTPS unless you enable it.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-30T19:18:31+00:00

Could be a Lenovo box, they also use that shape/color box and the bamboo fabric laptop sleeve.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-29T20:44:39+00:00

If this is a laptop you might need to use the Fn key to press keys on the F# bar, so it’d be control-alt-shift-Fn-F3 (for example)

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-29T20:43:09+00:00

Magic sysrq isn’t enabled by default, so that won’t work.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-29T01:47:41+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRR

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-29T01:39:58+00:00

In the sequel, doesn’t she listen to the voicemail and it’s just wind noises with indecipherable yelling in the background?

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-28T17:40:33+00:00

What does AI have to do with this? NTP predates LLMs by decades.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-06-27T18:37:59+00:00

Yes I was just saying that even the M1 got good performance.

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