Thanks Barry & Eike! Turns out msmtp actually was working for me, but I was making a stupid mistake in a Mailet.
You did inspire me to roll my own little app using JavaMail which will make it easy to create some complex emails in the future. Thanks, Zach On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Eike Kettner <eike.kett...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Zach, > > I'm using mutt as mail client and I use it for the purpose you > describe, too. All you need is a ~/.muttrc file with the required > stuff. Then this command > > mutt -s "my subject" user@localhost < sometext.txt > > should work. You can also set a config file explicitely with "mutt -F > my-other-muttrc ...". The following page gives a better overview: > > > http://go2linux.garron.me/linux/2010/10/how-send-email-command-line-gmail-mutt-789 > > hth, > Eike > > 2013/2/20 Zach Cox <zcox...@gmail.com>: > > Hi - I'm doing some work with Apache James and have it running on my > local > > development machine, which runs Ubuntu. To simplify testing, I'd like to > be > > able to send an email to this local James server from a bash script. > > > > I know I can telnet localhost 25 and send it that way, but telnet is > > difficult from a script. I've tried using msmtp and that gets the email > > into James, but JavaMail is unable to parse the data as a MimeMessage. > > > > I'd like to just find a simple command-line email utility that can send a > > well-formed email to my localhost server, without hitting dns or > anything. > > > > Does anyone have any good suggestions for doing this? > > > > Thanks, > > Zach > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org > >
