Re: [opensuse] mailing from CLI

ken wrote:
I need to email from the command line a previously created file. (The
finished working command will go into cron and so should be completely
programmatic.) Using Linux, There are a few open source apps that
should work: mail, mailx, and nail. Weirdness is that they all share
the same manpage. So maybe they all work exactly the same (???).

Or maybe I should say they all fail to work in the same way, because I
can't get anything to work at all or to give a helpful error message.

One complicating factor is that I don't want to set up a local mail
server and according to the mail/mailx/nail manpage, I shouldn't have
to. (That much I can understand of the manpage.) I have a remote mail
(IMAPS/SSL) server which works perfectly fine with thunderbird.

This is wrong, the command line Tools all depend on Postfix/Sendmail to
provide the command line binary /usr/sbin/sendmail to put the mail into
the local Mailserver queue.

If you don't want that you should use mini_sendmail. That is a command
line tool to send an email directly to a remote smtp server.


One simplifying factor is that I need only to send an email-- don't have
to read any.

The remote server I'm using listens on port 993, uses SSL.

Not good. 993 is the ImapS port, not an smtp port. Use a SMTP server to
send the mail to.

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