Mass email via bash script using imap

propofol · 02-13-2014, 03:38 PM

I need to send a large number of emails for a survey. The origin should be from my work imap email. (This is not spam really!) I have seen a few suggestions on the internet such as mailx and mutt. It looks like mailx may be the better option.

I would appreciate it if someone could show me an example of how to send an email mailx with password authentication.

Regards,
Stefan

acid_kewpie · 02-14-2014, 10:22 AM

You can't send email via IMAP. that's for receiving from a server, not sending out. You send with an SMTP service.

propofol · 02-14-2014, 03:40 PM

Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that just using 'mail' was not sufficient due to the authentication issues. This account uses starttls for authentication.