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Date:      Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:46:56 -0500
From:      "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sending mail to SMTP from command line
Message-ID:  <20060124024656.GB8617@sta.duo>
In-Reply-To: <dr0dt1$sg0$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <dr0dt1$sg0$1@sea.gmane.org>

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On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:03:29PM +0100, Matias Surdi wrote:
>
>Can some body tell me how can I send a mail from the command line (or a 
>bash script) to a remote (ISP) SMTP server???
>
>I don't want to have my own mta enabled on my host, just send a mail as 
>I would do from mozilla thunderbird, but from the command line.
>

mutt is a console (text) email client, it's pretty good, but no built
in mta (maybe you can use the "sendmail -q from cron" technique); mutt
is the easiest way to send emails with attachments (eg png graphs) from
scripts.

if you just want to send text, you can pipe a message to "mail" -- but
you'll still have to work out the mta thing. of course telnet works too,
heh, even for web pages if you speak HTTP!

// George


-- 
George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><
http://galis.org/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george@galis.org



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