I have spent several hours looking for tips on using the email binary in Cygwin to send email via Gmail from the command line. The man page and help output dont seem to clarify this. I seem to be timing out or not connecting to the gmail smtp server, but I dont get any errors from email, even with the V flag. It just hangs at:
Connecting to server smtp.gmail.com on port 465 Greeting the SMTP server... ... Here is the command I am using in my script. This worked fine when I used another ISP, but gmail is pickier. email -r smtp.gmail.com -f <user>@gmail.com -n me -s "backup for %DATE%" -a d:\backup.log <sameuser>@gmail.com I ran email-config and specified my userid, password, smtp server, port number, and to use TLS. I have also specified the port and used the tls flag in the command line. Sending email from outlook on the same computer works fine. Any documentation on email with SSL or tips on alternatives would be greatly appreciated. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
