send email from command line
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Sep 24 13:56:21 UTC 2008
Mark Haney wrote:
> mierda tuti wrote:
> I hate continuing to be the one to ask to not top post. I give up.
OK, I'll pick up the ball. Mierda - please don't top post. It makes it
hard to have a conversation.
>
> Why would you need gmail to be the relay?
Because gmail _is_ your mail server? (It is mine) Or because your ISP
doesn't do TLS? (mine doesn't)
> If you have kubuntu on your system have it use sendmail locally.
Except sendmail (or any MTA) isn't part of a default Kubuntu. If you just
want to install an MTA, postfix is the default. For a single user machine,
masqmail is nice and simple.
> If you have an ISP, use their mail
> server. I don't understand the point of going through all this just to
> send mail to gmail.
It's the same amount of work sending mail via gmail as through any ISP (ok,
maybe not quite the same - gmail only does secure mail, your ISP may allow
cleartext). One guesses Mierda wants to be able to send automated mails
from some system process - which is why the request for CLI. So, assuming
the system has no MTA - or need for one - pine would probably be the best
bet (I think - I don't do CLI mail much, but iirc mutt - or mailx - doesn't
do SMTP, pine does).
--
derek
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