About running telnet

satimis · 11-04-2007, 07:35 AM

Hi folks,

I have been googling around for cc and attachment commands on running telnet so I can cc copies to other recipients and attach doc on the mail sent.

I found following doc;
Sending Mail (SMTP)
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/PERL/node175.html

but can't find the commands for such actions. Please shed me some light. TIA

B.R.
satimis

David1357 · 11-04-2007, 11:24 AM

The link you listed has this line:

RCPT TO: <user@email.com>. You can indicate more than one user by issuing multiple RCPT commands.

You can use multiple RCPT commands to send to multiple users. Seems simple enough.

cmnorton · 11-04-2007, 01:01 PM

Our Linux servers use mailsend to pack up reports and send them through sendmail as attachments. This is sendmail's website, and you can download the source.

http://www.muquit.com/muquit/softwar.../mailsend.html

satimis · 11-04-2007, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David1357

The link you listed has this line:

RCPT TO: <user@email.com>. You can indicate more than one user by issuing multiple RCPT commands.

You can use multiple RCPT commands to send to multiple users. Seems simple enough.

Thanks for your advice.

I have been googling around for "multiple rcpt commands" w/o result. Is it a plugin?

Tried follows w/o result

rcpt to:<user1> session
555 5.5.4 Unsupported option: session
rcpt to:<user1> SESSION
555 5.5.4 Unsupported option: SESSION

Please advise? TIA

satimis

satimis · 11-04-2007, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cmnorton

Our Linux servers use mailsend to pack up reports and send them through sendmail as attachments. This is sendmail's website, and you can download the source.

http://www.muquit.com/muquit/softwar.../mailsend.html

Thanks for your advice and URL.

I'm running postfix on this server. Can I use this package? If YES, where will be an ideal directory to download "mailsend1.15b5.tar.gz"? Shall I run "telnet" at start OR just this package ONLY?

TIA

B.R.
satimis

satimis · 11-05-2007, 01:14 AM

Hi folks,

I got it done. Each "rcpt to:user1/2/3...@xyz.com" must be a new line.

Previously I made a mistake by running;

Code:

rcpt to:user1@xyz.com, user2@xyz.com, etc.

It failed.

I'm now searching for solution on the remaining problem, attchachment.

Thanks

satimis

David1357 · 11-05-2007, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satimis

I have been googling around for "multiple rcpt commands" w/o result. Is it a plugin?

No, it is a standard command. It is part of RFC 821: RFC 821: SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL

Quote:

Originally Posted by satimis

Tried follows w/o result

rcpt to:<user1> session
555 5.5.4 Unsupported option: session
rcpt to:<user1> SESSION
555 5.5.4 Unsupported option: SESSION

Please advise? TIA

RCPT only takes one option, an e-mail address. You cannot add the "session" at the end.

You might want to read the entire RFC before continuing your efforts.

nx5000 · 11-05-2007, 10:27 AM

Using mutt:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d-file-383997/

David1357 · 11-05-2007, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satimis

I'm now searching for solution on the remaining problem, attchachment.

You will need to convert the attachment to text and add it to the mail. Here is an example of how it will look:

------_=_NextPart_001_01C815FA.3D2B8065
Content-Type: application/x-zip-compressed;
name="messages.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: messages.zip
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="messages.zip"

UEsDBBQAAAAIAKRFVjfgzzbDlU4BAFDBEAAIAAAAbWVzc2FnZXPUXW1z2ziS/n6/AlezdetU2TQJ
...

There will be many lines that look like the last one before the "...". You will also need to indicate that the e-mail is a multi-part message somewhere in the header. I will leave the details as an exercise for you to complete.

tsquared · 11-06-2007, 03:08 AM

Thank You! I hope my daughter will like these.

satimis · 11-06-2007, 06:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

Using mutt:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d-file-383997/

Thanks for your advice and link.

I have mutt installed.

Where shall I run the command;

Code:

echo "Body" | mutt -a file1 -a file2 -s "Subject" email@domain.com

On running telnet command;

Code:

telnet localhost 25
ehlo domain.com
mail from: user1@domain.com
rcpt to: recepient@his_domain.com
data
Subject:
...
...
.[Enter]
quit

Is the command to be modified as;

Code:

echo "Body" mutt -a /path/to/file1 -a /path/to/file2 -s "Subject" recepient@his_domain.com

???

TIA

I'm prepared to attach .pdf files. Does it work to attach .pdf files. Any additional steps in between before sending the attachment. Thanks

B.R.
satimis

nx5000 · 11-06-2007, 07:23 AM

Run it like you run telnet, in a shell

echo "Body" | mutt -a file1 -a file2 -s "Subject" email@domain.com

It depends on your experience in shell scripting.
| means take the output of the left command and "inject" it in the right command.
echo "body" .. prints "body"
mutt takes as input the body of the email
So this command will send a mail with subject "Subject" to recipient email@domain.com , attaches file1 and file2 and in the body of the email adds a single line: "Body".

If you have the body of the email in file body.txt (containing several lines for example), you can also do:

cat body.txt | mutt ...

I highly suggest that you read the man page of mutt, I don't know all the options and it depends on what you need. Especially the part about muttrc where you can put the "from user1@domain.com"

Ah yes, I haven't tried this command actually but it should work. Pdf or whatever should work.

satimis · 11-07-2007, 05:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nx5000

Run it like you run telnet, in a shell

echo "Body" | mutt -a file1 -a file2 -s "Subject" email@domain.com

It depends on your experience in shell scripting.
| means take the output of the left command and "inject" it in the right command.
echo "body" .. prints "body"
mutt takes as input the body of the email
So this command will send a mail with subject "Subject" to recipient email@domain.com , attaches file1 and file2 and in the body of the email adds a single line: "Body".

If you have the body of the email in file body.txt (containing several lines for example), you can also do:

cat body.txt | mutt ...

I highly suggest that you read the man page of mutt, I don't know all the options and it depends on what you need. Especially the part about muttrc where you can put the "from user1@domain.com"

Ah yes, I haven't tried this command actually but it should work. Pdf or whatever should work.

Hi nx5000,

mutt is a wonderful package, easy and straight forward to use,

On echo "message_body", to change a new line just pressing [Enter]. Pressing [Enter] twice adds a blank line. The options;

-b for bcc followed by email_address
-c for cc followed by email_address

Any format of doc, .jpd, .pdf, .doc, etc can be attached.

Thanks again.

satimis

nx5000 · 11-07-2007, 10:40 AM

Hummm easy I'm not sure.
Using mutt for this case (in CLI) is very easy yes but start mutt TUI (simply by typing "mutt") and that's another story. It's like when you discover vi, it's either you love it or hate it..
I'm using it as my localmail reader (syslog, logwatch). It has very powerfull possibilties.