I need to email from the command line a previously created file.
If you want to e-mail a file vs. just a message look at the "nail" command, very handy.
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finished working command will go into cron and so should be completely programmatic.) Using Linux, There are a few open source apps that should work: mail, mailx, and nail. Weirdness is that they all share the same manpage. So maybe they all work exactly the same (???). Or maybe I should say they all fail to work in the same way, because I can't get anything to work at all or to give a helpful error message. One complicating factor s that I don't want to set up a local mail
There is no reason not to setup the local MTA to use the central relay; it will save you allot of grief.
server and according to the mail/mailx/nail manpage, I shouldn't have to. (That much I can understand of the manpage.) I have a remote mail (IMAPS/SSL) server which works perfectly fine with thunderbird. This is wrong, the command line Tools all depend on Postfix/Sendmail to provide the command line binary /usr/sbin/sendmail to put the mail into the local Mailserver queue. If you don't want that you should use mini_sendmail. That is a command line tool to send an email directly to a remote smtp server.
Yast will setup postfix to do basic delivery to a central mail repository; just run through the setup. There is no reason not to have the local MTA configured. You do not need to accept connections.
One simplifying factor is that I need only to send an email-- don't have to read any. The remote server I'm using listens on port 993, uses SSL. Not good. 993 is the ImapS port, not an smtp port. Use a SMTP server to send the mail to.
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