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Using Mutt in Slackware 13

I am working under Slackware 13. This evening I have been trying to write a shell script, in order to send emails (with some attached files) automatically everyday at, say, 8 o'clock.

The first thing, it seems to me, is to let the Mutt work. I googled and see answers like:

Code:

mutt -s "my subject" -a attachment-files somemail@gmail.com < email-content.txt

I tried this solution and several others, like

Code:

mail -s "Welcome" somemail@gmail.com

, with the above "somemail@gmail.com" substituted by my own gmail address. But then I receive no emails at all.

I think I might need to do something like creating and editing a .rc file. But as the task is a bit urgent, I would like to hear suggestions from experts while investigating the problem. Could anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

I have a working solution. I don't know if it is exactly what you are looking for. I will send it to you after I get off of work in about 5 hours.

Wait, do you have sendmail installed? If you send mails directly from your local machine (non-whitelisted address), you will likely need to whitelist or check your spam box. There is also an alternative to just login to your gmail account and send it to yourself.

I have a few minutes on to log into my server to check what I was doing.

This is perl code from my cron job, but the idea is open a pipe to mailx to feed the message to.

Code:

  if (!open($fh, "| mailx -s \"$subject\" $recipients")) {

    print "Error: Couldn't send email.\n";

    exit 0;

  }

I don't think you need mutt. I looked at it too, but couldn't figure it out.

If you want to send email using your gmail account with mailx, create this in $HOME/.mailrc

Code:

account gmail {

set folder=imaps://youremail@imap.gmail.com

set password-youremail@imap.gmail.com="yourpassword"

set record=+Sent

set from="Your Name <youremail@gmail.com>"

set smtp-use-starttls

set smtp=smtp://smtp.gmail.com:587

set smtp-auth=login

set smtp-auth-user=youremail@gmail.com

set smtp-auth-password="yourpassword"

}

Code:

  if (!open($fh, "| mailx -A gmail -s \"$subject\" $recipients")) {

    print "Error: Couldn't send email.\n";

    exit 0;

  }

So if you are using mailx make sure you have sendmail installed and running. Then make sure you clear your spam filter.

Perhaps you could adapt some of this guide, which does not deal with IMAP, to your needs:

http://www.andrews-corner.org/mutt.html

I believe it is even written by a Slackware user :).

To the3dfsdude and andrew.46: thanks for your kind replies!

After struggling with sendmail for a while, it seems to be clear that to let sendmail work, the machine itself (which I am using now) should work like a mail server.

And that is complex... After some googling, I turned to mutt+msmtp combination and found them working well.

I put the very webpage that helped me out here, in case that anyone would come across similar problems:
http://www.viyin.net/2009/08/linux-m...kup-mysql.html
(it is a chinese webpage; but ignoring the few chinese characters seems not a problem to follow the whole process)

Quote:

Originally Posted by seflyer (Post 4769303)

Code:

mutt -s "my subject" -a attachment-files somemail@gmail.com < email-content.txt

I tried this solution and several others, like

Code:

mail -s "Welcome" somemail@gmail.com

seflyer --

Sometime in the 'recent' past, mutt changed it's syntax where if you invoke the -a Flag, a '--' flag is REQUIRED after the -a args but before the recipient list.

Try this ?

Code:

mutt -s "my subject" -a attachment-files -- somemail@gmail.com < email-content.txt ### note -- flag after -a args

-- kjh

You may find the mail or mailx command easier to use