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Re: Command line email clients


On Fri, 14 May 2004, Robert Pollard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to automate email notifications from a shell script.  I also
> need to be able to set up the email servers for sending mail through a
> shell script.  Which ever email client I use, I need to automate the
> process of setting up and sending mail.
>
> I have looked at Pine and tried to find information on ssmtp but can't
> locate any information on it.  Pine seems a bit much for what I need.
> I would like to be able to just send email and not have the overhead of
> Pine.  Is there documentation on ssmtp that will show me how to setup a
> smtp server and send an email to it?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert Pollard

Have you checked the first obvious place,
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-2.60.4.README (and the second,
/usr/share/doc/ssmtp-2.60.4/README)?

There are SMTP modules for perl, and another mailer, "mutt", which may
have the scripting capability you need (as it has a "mail" emulation
mode).  Also, someone posted a "mail" script recently (within the past
week) that uses ssmtp and may do exactly what you want.
	Igor
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