[X-Unix] Simple commandline mail client

Xavier Noria fxn at hashref.com
Tue Feb 3 07:47:35 PST 2004


On Feb 3, 2004, at 16:28, James Bucanek wrote:

> Peter Marreck wrote on Tuesday, February 3, 2004:
>
>> Here's my situation- I merely want to be able to enter some SMTP
>> settings (server, login, etc.) in a config file (or as additional
>> parameters on a commandline) so I can do something like "mail 
>> me at me.com
>> 'this is the subject' 'this is the body'" so I can include it in a
>> script. I don't want to have to mess with installing or configuring
>> mail SERVERS such as Postfix etc., and I don't want something that 
>> will
>> automatically break with the next OS upgrade. I also don't necessarily
>> want to applescript mail.app. Does anyone know of such a CL app?
>
> The tool is called 'sendmail'

Does it handle attachments out of the box?

There's a command line SMTP client which comes in a single Perl script 
that's very easy to use, it's called sendMail:

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

and handles attachments.

-- fxn



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