Re: [opensuse] mailing from CLI

On 04/17/2007 08:03 AM somebody named Sandy Drobic wrote:
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.

"Wrong" is way too strong a word... actually inappropriate (unless
"Tools" has some highly obscure, highly qualitative meaning).

(1) One essential characteristic of client-server technology is that the
physical locations of the client and server are irrelevant as long as
they can connect via a network.

(2) Tbird (a client) doesn't require a local MTA to send email to a
remote server. Nor does mew, an emacs library for email.

(3) The nail (a command line MUA) manpage has an "smtp-use-starttls"
setting, which indicates to me that it is intended to be used to connect
to a remote mail server. See (1).



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.

I mentioned port 993 only because a login to a server is sometimes
required in order for a client to send email; 993 indicates the use of
SSL. So, yes, it is an IMAPS port, but knowing about the use of SSL may
be relevant to sending mail.

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