Sending e-mail from command line with SSL auth

ipartola · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 11

I'm not sure if this is in the right place so I apologize in advance.

Is there a command line e-mailing tool that would allow me to send an e-mail? I've looked at mailx, email and nail but none of those support SSL authentication (I'm not sending the e-mail through an SMTP server on my localhost but rather the university mail server). Since this thing is going into a script I'm looking for something that does not need user interaction.

Thanks

Igor

Kruegi · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:10 am Post subject:

pine?

Thomas

ipartola · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 11

Does pine have a non-interactive mode? I looked at the man page and it said that it was completely interactive. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Igor

Kruegi · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:05 am Post subject:

Sorry, I overread this part...

How about using ssmtp? It supports SSL/TLS connections?

Thomas

ipartola · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 11

Ssmtp seems to work great. My only concern is that it is in /sbin and is not visible to the general public (i.e. unprivileged users). How would I handle the security here?

Thanks,

Igor

Kruegi · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:23 am Post subject:

Just run it with full path!

Thomas