On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > Anyone out there ever written a script to send email messages? > > I want to write a script that will send a message to a certain email address > when called. I thought I could just use the "mail" program, but it relies > on /usr/sbin/sendmail to actually send the message. I believe that means I > have to install and configure either sendmail or postfix. Sounds like a lot > of work for a simple script. > > I don't want to run my own mail server (not at the moment). I rely on my isp > for sending and receiving email. > > Is there a simple way to do this? Can I somehow tell kmail to do it for me? If > not, can someone point me to some good instructions for configuring postfix > to do what I need without interfering with email to/from my isp, and without > opening up security holes in my system (e.g. an open relay). >
Might want to look at smtp-source? Not sure if it is what you are looking for - but the MAN page looked slightly promising. Also, If you are using perl check out http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.19/Net/SMTP.pm which says: This example sends a small message to the postmaster at the SMTP server known as mailhost: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use Net::SMTP; $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost'); $smtp->mail($ENV{USER}); $smtp->to('postmaster'); $smtp->data(); $smtp->datasend("To: postmaster\n"); $smtp->datasend("\n"); $smtp->datasend("A simple test message\n"); $smtp->dataend(); $smtp->quit; Hope that helps. Job
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