Sending mail from command line

matiasquestions · 01-21-2006, 11:58 PM

Hi,

How can I send a mail to a smtp server from a bash script??

Thanks!.

macemoneta · 01-22-2006, 09:15 AM

Most distributions include the mail command (man for details):

cat somefile.txt | mail -s "some subject" someuser@somedomain.com

matiasquestions · 01-22-2006, 10:49 AM

Hi, thanks for replying, but that's not wat I need, because as far as I understand, "mail" requires a local mta properly configured on the system, an that's too much overhead for my requeriments.

I just want to connect to a remote (ISP) smtp server with my login info, and send a mail to someone from the command line (a very simple bash script I'm writing).

Thanks.

macemoneta · 01-22-2006, 11:01 AM

That's doable as well. Take a look at this bash example script.

matiasquestions · 01-22-2006, 11:17 AM

This is what I was looking for!!:

http://nail.sourceforge.net/

I'm going to try it.

Thanks.

vls · 01-22-2006, 11:51 AM

Nail is an excellent little mail program and doesn't require sendmail as you've probably noticed by now.