Sending mail on command line.

josh · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: Sending mail on command line.

I need a way to send mail from the command line to our company's mail server to be delivered. I'm assuming that this can be done since any mail client (pine,thunderbird,outlook) can do this. I just can't figure out the syntax.

The problem is that on our application servers there are cronjobs that kick out emails to customers using the machines local sendmail to send off the mail. Sometimes our customers mail servers will reject the emails because it can't identify the app server as being a valid originating mail server. Anything sent from our mail server never has a problem. So I'm thinking if I can change these crons to act as clients; delivering the mail to our mail server to be sent out from there, just as though I was using thunder bird, it would work. How can I accomplish this on the command line?

Thanks in advance!
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msalerno · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject:

Why not have sendmail relay off of the other mail server?

josh · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject:

I'd love to. I just don't know how. And if it involves any changes on the mail server then I can't do it. Our mailserver admin is less than helpful. Even if I did all of the work. How would I go about doing that?
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msalerno · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject:

If you install ssmtp on the system running the cron jobs, you can easily setup relaying. If you are stuck on sendmail, read up on mail_hub

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

pine is a terminal based mail sending client, you may be able to script it to send some stuff by CLI ?
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msalerno · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject:

I know you can also do it with mutt i guess

echo hi | mutt msalerno@foo.bar

josh · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

Yes, I am stuck with sendmail. I wasn't able to find anything on mail_hub but it did lead me to sendmail.mc. And it was alot easier than I thought. I just added the line:

mlybarger · Guru Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 480

i'm trying to figure out command line emails atm. i currently have qmail installed, and seems to be running. i can send an email out using:

msalerno · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject:

josh · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject:

I have a program that generates excel-spreadsheet reports and emails them a-la sendmail (actually its a symlink from sendmail to postfix):

toralf · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

josh · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:46 pm Post subject:

I actually downloaded it from source (from god-knows-where now) and installed it. I see there is a package called uudeview:

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/app-text/uudeview

Which may or maynot have uu{en,de}code. It does have "uu" which looks like it might do something.
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josh · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

I actually installed it and took a look. It has uuenview and uudeview. uuenview can be dropped in place of uuencode in the above example. I don't know where I was getting just "uu" from.
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toralf · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:25 pm Post subject: