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Aysen
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 Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject: command line mail program [SOLVED - sendEmail] |
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Hi.
Can anyone recommend a command line program to send email (to work in a bash script)? I don't want to setup my own server or anything, I just need a program able to send mail using my existing address (SMTP server). I know about mail, but... erm, call me stupid, but I can't use it...  Or maybe configure something wrong... I have to setup sendmail correctly to be albo to use mail, right? If that is the program I need, could I ask for any guidance what to do to be able to send mail from one address to another?
Thank you very much!
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speak_see_hear
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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I *think* that mutt will do what you need.
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think4urs11
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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net-mail/sendEmail
net-mail/email
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Aysen
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for such a quick reply!
sendEmail is *the* program I needed!
I knew about mutt, but it has a ncurses/slang interface and I needed one with no interface but command line. Anyway, thank you both!  |
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fourhead
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:03 am Post subject: |
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I'm just trying sendEmail too, but it doesn't work. When I run it with
./sendEmail -f myadress@mydomain.de -t myrealmail@otherdomain.de -u Test -m Test
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ERROR => Connection attempt to localhost:25 failed: IO:Socket:INET: connect: Connection refused
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This is actually an Ubuntu install, so it might be Ubuntu-specific. It's a default config, I have no firewall at all, and I don't have sendmail or any other mail stuff installed. Any ideas?
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Aysen
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| fourhead wrote: | I'm just trying sendEmail too, but it doesn't work. When I run it with
./sendEmail -f myadress@mydomain.de -t myrealmail@otherdomain.de -u Test -m Test
I get this:
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ERROR => Connection attempt to localhost:25 failed: IO:Socket:INET: connect: Connection refused
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You need to supply the -s option (server:port). For example, if you use smtp.mydomain.de as your SMTP server, use | Code: | | sendEmail [your options] -s smtp.mydomain.de |
(the port is optional and defaults to 25).
Moreover, if your mail server requires authentication, you'll need to emerge the masked (~x86) version of sendEmail - the current stable version doesn't support it (at least it didn't work for me). The -xu and -xp options are responsible for authentication. For more info launch sendEmail with no arguments. |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:35 am Post subject: |
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With mutt, the command would be:
| Code: | | echo "This is the body." | mutt -s "This is the Subject" -a /tmp/attachment.zip recipient@company.com |
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fourhead
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Shame on me
I didn't see the -s switch at all, but now it works, I'm using my own mail server with -xu and -xp. Thanks a lot!
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