[X-Unix] mail from terminal

[Simon Forster]

On 21 Apr 2005, at 14:30, Ben Gold wrote:

> I'd like to be able to simply send an email from the terminal.  How do 
> I do this?
>
> Is there a command that can accept all the info? SMTP, etc.  Or do I 
> need to configure the unix mail program?

python
 >>>import smtplib
 >>>server = smtplib.SMTP('192.168.0.7')
 >>>server.sendmail('from at ldml.com', 'simon-lists at ldml.com', 'Subject: 
Some Stuff\n\nHere\'s a test email.')
 >>>server.quit()

Works when using an open Sendmail SMTP server within our local network. 
A more complete script can be found at 
<http://python.fyxm.net/doc/2.4/lib/SMTP-example.html>.

Another server we have requires a POP connection before it'll accept 
outgoing mail - so we have a subroutine to do this. In fact it'd be 
quite trivial to write a quick Python script which you call from the 
command line with 2 arguments - the subject and the message. Better 
still write a simple SMTP server into the Python script & then it's all 
self contained!

HTH

Simon Forster
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