What about sendEmail

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What is sendEmail?

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SendEmail is a lightweight, completly command line based, SMTP email agent.

If you have the need to send email from the command line, this tool is perfect.

It was designed to be used in bash scripts, Perl programs, and web sites, but

it is also quite useful in many other contexts. SendEmail is written in Perl

and is unique in that it requires NO SPECIAL MODULES. It has an intuitive and

flexible set of command-line options, making it very easy to learn and use.

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Installation

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SendEmail is a perl script/program, and only needs to be copied to a directory

in your path to make it accessible. Most likely the following steps will

be sufficient:

1) Extract the package

tar -zxvf sendEmail-v1.XX.tar.gz

2) Copy the sendEmail script to /usr/local/bin

cp -a sendEmail-v1.XX/sendEmail /usr/local/bin

3) Make sure its executable

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sendEmail

4) Run it

sendEmail

or

/usr/local/bin/sendEmail

NOTES:

* Running sendEmail without any arguments will produce a usage summary.

* SendEmail is written in Perl, so no compilation is needed.

* On a Unix/Linux OS if your perl binary is not installed at /usr/bin/perl

you may need to edit the first line of the script accordingly.

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Usage Overview

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sendEmail-1.56 by Brandon Zehm <caspian@dotconf.net>

Synopsis: sendEmail -f ADDRESS [options]

Required:

-f ADDRESS from (sender) email address

* At least one recipient required via -t, -cc, or -bcc

* Message body required via -m, STDIN, or -o message-file=FILE

Common:

-t ADDRESS [ADDR ...] to email address(es)

-u SUBJECT message subject

-m MESSAGE message body

-s SERVER[:PORT] smtp mail relay, default is localhost:25

Optional:

-a FILE [FILE ...] file attachment(s)

-cc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] cc email address(es)

-bcc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] bcc email address(es)

-xu USERNAME username for SMTP authentication

-xp PASSWORD password for SMTP authentication

Paranormal:

-b BINDADDR[:PORT] local host bind address

-l LOGFILE log to the specified file

-v verbosity, use multiple times for greater effect

-q be quiet (i.e. no STDOUT output)

-o NAME=VALUE advanced options, for details try: --help misc

-o message-content-type=<auto|text|html|other>

-o message-file=FILE -o message-format=raw

-o message-header=HEADER -o message-charset=CHARSET

-o reply-to=ADDRESS -o timeout=SECONDS

-o username=USERNAME -o password=PASSWORD

-o tls=<auto|yes|no> -o fqdn=FQDN

Help:

--help the helpful overview you're reading now

--help addressing explain addressing and related options

--help message explain message body input and related options

--help networking explain -s, -b, etc

--help output explain logging and other output options

--help misc explain -o options, TLS, SMTP auth, and more

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Examples

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Simple Email:

sendEmail -f me@gmail.com \

-t friend@yahoo.com \

-s smtp.gmail.com:587 \

-xu me@gmail.com \

-xp MY-PASSWORD \

-u "Test email" \

-m "Hi buddy, this is a test email."

Sending to mutiple people:

sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \

-t "Scott Thomas <scott@isp.net>" jason@isp.net renee@isp.net \

-s relay.isp.net \

-u "Test email" \

-m "Hi guys, this is a test email."

Sending to multiple people using cc and bcc recipients:

(notice the different way I specified multiple To recipients, you can do this for cc and bcc as well)

sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \

-t scott@isp.net;jason@isp.net;renee@isp.net \

-cc jennifer@isp.net paul@isp.net jeremiah@isp.net \

-bcc troy@isp.net miranda@isp.net jay@isp.net \

-s relay.isp.net \

-u "Test email with cc and bcc recipients" \

-m "Hi guys, this is a test email."

Sending to multiple people with multiple attachments:

sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \

-t jason@isp.net \

-cc jennifer@isp.net paul@isp.net jeremiah@isp.net \

-s relay.isp.net \

-u "Test email with cc and bcc recipients" \

-m "Hi guys, this is a test email." \

-a /mnt/storage/document.sxw "/root/My Documents/Work Schedule.kwd"

Sending an email with the contents of a file as the message body:

cat /tmp/file.txt | sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \

-t jason@isp.net \

-s relay.isp.net \

-u "Test email with contents of file"

Sending an email with the contents of a file as the message body (method 2):

sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \

-t jason@isp.net \

-s relay.isp.net \

-o message-file=/tmp/file.txt \

-u "Test email with contents of file"

Sending an html email: (make sure your html file has <html> at the beginning)

cat /tmp/file.html | sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \

-t jason@isp.net \

-s relay.isp.net \

-u "Test email with html content"