Sometimes I want to leave a task running and get an email informing me that the task is finished and its final status/output. Sometimes I may want to get an alert. For example, if a certain task begins to run or if it's suddenly not running anymore when it should be.
That's on my desktop, and I don't want to run a full-fledged mail server (sendmail, qmail, postfix) just for that. I don't need that one more process running all the time. I want a static program that I can invoke from a script to dispatch one odd message out once in a while.
I have been using
mailsend, which has the added benefit of supporting SSL (which I plan to make compulsory on my remote mail server, the gateway I'm using for these notification messages), but it has a bug that's been annoying me: it sends every message twice. It's not my script, I have tested it on the command line, I always get its messages twice.
Is there any other program I could use?