Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
On July 22, 2004 07:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 05:54 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: 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). Look for and install a package called esmtp, that mirrors sendmail functionality but doesn't actually work as an MTA itself, it simply relays messages to your MTA of choice. In essence, it provides you with full sendmail compatibility for scripts but it only relays messages just as your mail client would. There are a couple of other packages that do the same thing as well but esmtp is very simply to setup and configure for what you want it to do. The only drawback is that it won't route local messages to your machine, you have to send to fully qualified email addresses because you are are relaying through an external server. IOW, you can't send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. Thanks, esmtp is exactly what I needed. It would have been nice if Mandrake installed this by default. I was trying to use the mail command, but it just dies with an error that /usr/sbin/sendmail is missing. But I suppose it wouldn't work anyway without a suitable config file. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 02:20 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Thanks, esmtp is exactly what I needed. It would have been nice if Mandrake installed this by default. I was trying to use the mail command, but it just dies with an error that /usr/sbin/sendmail is missing. But I suppose it wouldn't work anyway without a suitable config file. Correct. Also, Mandrake installs Postfix by default if you tell it you want to operate a mail server. esmtp won't coexist with Postfix since they both offer compatibility with sendmail. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
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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Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
Job Evers wrote: I don't want to run my own mail server (not at the moment). I rely on my isp for sending and receiving email. You may find interesting the discussion at the address below: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8th=e24b7f1413649e06rnum=5 Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
On Wednesday 21 July 2004 05:54 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: 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). Look for and install a package called esmtp, that mirrors sendmail functionality but doesn't actually work as an MTA itself, it simply relays messages to your MTA of choice. In essence, it provides you with full sendmail compatibility for scripts but it only relays messages just as your mail client would. There are a couple of other packages that do the same thing as well but esmtp is very simply to setup and configure for what you want it to do. The only drawback is that it won't route local messages to your machine, you have to send to fully qualified email addresses because you are are relaying through an external server. IOW, you can't send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Sending email from a script
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). Thanks, -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script
Op Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:54:27 -0600 schreef Ron Hunter-Duvar: Anyone out there ever written a script to send email messages? 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). Postfix is easy, you can find all info on www.postfix.org/documentation.html. The script-way to send mail is through 'mail'. 'mail' is a program. I think it is always installed with Mandrake, I never had to look for it. E.g. cat textfile_with_message | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Here is the subject (all in one line) Another option is the here-document way, if the contents of the mail is always the same: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s Subject @end This is it. @end Everything between the @end directives will be in the body of the e-mail. It really is easy as that... Paul -- Beware of computerized fortune-tellers! http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
