sending mail via cli

Chijtska · 02-01-2002, 01:39 PM

lets say i want to send mail via the cli, how would i go about doing that?

DavidPhillips · 02-01-2002, 09:44 PM

I have to know this...

what is the cli

Chijtska · 02-01-2002, 10:41 PM

it is the command line interface

...

DavidPhillips · 02-01-2002, 11:40 PM

OH

just use the mail command

acid_kewpie · 02-02-2002, 06:16 AM

there are loads of ways, i only use Pine as my email client, as it's so much easier and fast the sylpheed or all that rubbish.

david... not impressed! :P

DavidPhillips · 02-02-2002, 01:01 PM

I use pine too

jeremy · 02-02-2002, 03:06 PM

You could do something like

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echo "Message" | mail -s Subject email@address.com

You can also use sendmail from a command line.

dorward · 02-02-2002, 07:25 PM

I would use mutt:

mutt email@ddress.com -s "Some subject" < file_containing body

or

<body on STDIN> | mutt email@ddress.com -s "Some subject"

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Or you can run mutt and use the console interface if that's what you ment.

Chijtska · 02-02-2002, 09:28 PM

how do you get mutt to download your email messages...also what directory do they download to?

DavidPhillips · 02-02-2002, 10:06 PM

if you want to get mail on command line you could try fetchmail

just do this

fetchmail -u username mail.your.email.server

did you try pine yet?

Chijtska · 02-02-2002, 10:30 PM

if i install fetchmail and sendmail does the smtp port stay open all the time? i know that might sound paranoid but i really like my machine to have no security holes...

DavidPhillips · 02-02-2002, 11:25 PM

you are talking about checking mail on an outside server I think

you would not need to be running a server for that.

you establish the connection to the server and get your mail.

sendmail is setup as a local mail delivery system by default, no one can connect to it from anywhere but locally.

dorward · 02-03-2002, 02:32 AM

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Originally posted by Chijtska
if i install fetchmail and sendmail does the smtp port stay open all the time? i know that might sound paranoid but i really like my machine to have no security holes...

Either configure the server to listen on the loopback interface only, or use ipchains / iptables to block access to the port from anything but localhost.

Chijtska · 02-03-2002, 08:32 AM

where would the files for this be located? i can not find them anywhere using locate or whereis...

acid_kewpie · 02-03-2002, 08:48 AM

if they're installed, they'll be on root's path. it would seem that they're not, they'er not on my md81 desktop box. install the rpms (search rpmfind.net if you need to) and i recommedn using fiiestarter to configure them