[SOLVED] Is it possible to send an email to abc123@gmail.com directly from Konsole?

Robert.Thompson · 03-02-2011, 07:39 PM

Hello:

If it is possible, do I need to do some 'configuration stuff' to get it to work?

How do I start it?

Thanks,

MS3FGX · 03-02-2011, 08:02 PM

If you are asking if it is possible, in general, to send an email from the console then yes. People sent email that way for many years before we got modern web-based email and GUI clients.

The more important question is how you want to send this email and from what address. How you actually send out the email will depend on whether or not you are trying to send it from a valid email address, and where that email is hosted. For instance, sending email without a return address is easy enough, but if you are looking to route outgoing email through GMail for example, that will take additional work.

ewsmith · 03-02-2011, 08:03 PM

what do you mean by 'directly'?
there is mutt and pine. or do you want to just type in a command?

Robert.Thompson · 03-02-2011, 08:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ewsmith

what do you mean by 'directly'?
there is mutt and pine. or do you want to just type in a command?

I think I read somewhere that you can type something like 'mail' or maybe it was 'sendmail' and an address like abc123@gmail.com and then you are asked for subject then body then it goes.

I think I read this in a book so I'm trying to find it now.

Thanks,

octoberblu3 · 03-02-2011, 08:14 PM

If you want a nice console email client, check out alpine.

If you want something that you can script easily, just use the mail command. It just goes as 'mail some.address@example.com' and pipe the message in through stdin. You can set the subject via command line arg, or just include the header in the piped text. 'man mail' will give you all the details you need.

bgeddy · 03-02-2011, 08:28 PM

I can send mail like this to my gmail account (this is not the real one) as I have sendmail running :

Code:

echo "Next test for you mate" | mail -s "Next Thing"  thisibgeddy@gmail.com

and it just goes. You can also pipe through sendmail but I find that a bit more fiddly. I can send a file like this :

Code:

cat file1  | /usr/bin/sendmail thisisbgeddy@gmail.com

quanta · 03-02-2011, 08:50 PM

Yes, you can.

If your server has MX, PTR record, you can configure it to send mail normally. If no, you can send through Gmail's SMTP.

FredGSanford · 03-02-2011, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bgeddy

I can send mail like this to my gmail account (this is not the real one) as I have sendmail running :

Code:

echo "Next test for you mate" | mail -s "Next Thing"  thisibgeddy@gmail.com

I just tried that and it worked for me....very interesting.

mrclisdue · 03-03-2011, 05:34 AM

I stumbled upon SendEmail a couple of months back, and it's purrrfeccct.

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

cheers,

Robert.Thompson · 03-03-2011, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrclisdue

I stumbled upon SendEmail a couple of months back, and it's purrrfeccct.

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

cheers,

Hello:

I tried sendEmail and this is what happened:

Code:

root@darkstar:/home/rob# sendEmail -f robert.thompson@gmail.com -t robert.thompson@gmail.com -u test -m testsendEmail
Mar 03 11:21:41 darkstar sendEmail[8314]: ERROR => Connection attempt to localhost:25 failed: IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection refused
root@darkstar:/home/rob#

Then I tried the example:

Code:

root@darkstar:/home/rob# sendEmail -f robert.thompson@gmail.com  -t robert.thompson@gmail.com -s smtp.gmail.com:587                   -xp xxxxix                    -u "Test email"                    -m "Hi buddy, this is a test email."                                
Mar 03 11:31:12 darkstar sendEmail[8717]: ERROR => Received:    530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. wt14sm916625icb.4 
root@darkstar:/home/rob# STARTTLS                                                                                                             
bash: STARTTLS: command not found

Is there some sort of set up that I must do first?

Thanks,

ponce · 03-03-2011, 10:37 AM

it looks like it's still sending the email to the local MTA, maybe you should specify google servers with their proper port.

in this cases maybe msmtp could be an alternative.

mrclisdue · 03-03-2011, 10:39 AM

for SendEmail, you'll have to install a couple of perl modules for tls support:

Quote:

TLS Support
Starting with sendEmail v1.54, TLS support is included! To enable TLS support simply install the Net::SSLeay and IO::Socket::SSL perl modules. The following new command line parameters are now available:
-o tls=auto This is the default, TLS will be used if possible.
-o tls=yes Use this to require TLS for message delivery.
-o tls=no Use this to disable TLS support.
If TLS is giving strange errors, try upgrading the Net::SSLeay and IO::Socket::SSL perl modules. Please do NOT report TLS bugs unless you have already done this! If you're running up-to-date versions of these modules and you are getting TLS errors, your detailed bug report will be appreciated. Yes, you can finally use SendEmail to send messages to your GMail account

here's an example that I've got in a cron job to remind me to call m'dad daily....

Code:

/usr/local/bin/sendEmail -o tls=auto -f mrclisdue@gmail.com -t 5193775481@msg.telus.com -m 'call dad' -s smtp.gmail.com:587 -xu mrclisdue@gmail.com -xp *********

note that the -s indicates that I'm using my gmail account to send the mail, and not localhost:25....

cheers,

Robert.Thompson · 03-03-2011, 11:03 AM

Hello:

I keep getting the following error msg:

Code:

Mar 03 12:00:32 darkstar sendEmail[9936]: NOTICE => Authentication not supported by the remote SMTP server!
Mar 03 12:00:32 darkstar sendEmail[9936]: ERROR => Received:    530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. i2sm932965icv.3

Any ideas as to how to resolve this?

Thanks,

mrclisdue · 03-03-2011, 11:12 AM

can we have a look-see at the command you're issuing?

cheers,

Robert.Thompson · 03-03-2011, 11:25 AM

Hello:

I have been doing some reading about all of this on the web and have decided that this stuff is way over my head at the moment, may be, at any moment.

Thank you very much for your time and great information!

Marking as SOLVED.