send CLI email using googles SMTP

augurseer · 12-05-2007, 10:17 PM

i am trying to set up a number of automated email based messaging system for my work and home.

what i would like to do is send email from the CLI to specific email address'.

I even found a program that seems to have the option i am looking for it is called sendemail and it seems quite nice.

My main issue is that even when i think i have fiiled it out 100% i get a segmentation fault error and the program ends.

I am trying to send the email through gmails SMTP server, which requires TLS over SMTP and uses port 465

it takesa while to time out and then says segmentaiton fault.

is this my end? a result of google? is my input to the program wrong?

do you recomend any other CLI based email sending tools?

this isnt jsut for system messagaing but thats where i am starting!!!!

heres the input i put and the output i get:

the fakes are so i dont give away real info HAHA

./sendEmail -f fake@gmail.com -t fakefake@gmail.com -s smtp.gmail.com:465 -o tls=yes username=fakename@gmail.com password=fakepassword

heres the output:

Segmentation fault

BOP thats it

-thanks

Berhanie · 12-06-2007, 10:02 AM

Try to do the smtp conversation manually:

Code:

openssl s_client -connect machine.google.com:465 -starttls smtp

That takes care of the TLS connection. Anything else, include authentication, needs to be done
during the conversation.