Hello,

I was wondering whether there are any programs out there that will run from the command line and allow me to specify a subject, recipient, IMAP server, username, and password, and pipe in a file for the body of the message?

I need to setup email from a script on a remote server, but would rather not configure postfix if posible. I already have a fully functioning IMAP server at another location which is setup to use authentication. I'm looking for an easy way to have a shell script on a remote machine send email via a specific account on the IMAP server.

Does anything exist to do this?

Thanks,
Jason

IMAP is a way to retrieve email, not send, so it's really not necessary in order to send your messages.

There are plenty of command line tools, utilities and or CLI email clients you can use to send email.

mail - CL
sendmail - CL
mutt - CL Client
elm - CL Client
pine - CL Client

and many many others.. and CL stands for Command Line.

Sorry... meant SMTP. sorry for the confusion.

And I mean actually from the COMMAND LINE, as in something I can call from a shell script like:

commandname server username password subject recipients < message.txt

If your running a script you can send an email like this:

The /dev/null is used if you are not sending any attachments. If you want to send an attachment:

Hope this is Helpful