Sending mail to SMTP from command line

[George Georgalis]

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


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