On 04/17/2007 08:03 AM somebody named Sandy Drobic wrote:
ken wrote:
I need to email from the command line a previously created file. (The 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 is that I don't want to set up a local mail 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.
"Wrong" is way too strong a word... actually inappropriate (unless "Tools" has some highly obscure, highly qualitative meaning). (1) One essential characteristic of client-server technology is that the physical locations of the client and server are irrelevant as long as they can connect via a network. (2) Tbird (a client) doesn't require a local MTA to send email to a remote server. Nor does mew, an emacs library for email. (3) The nail (a command line MUA) manpage has an "smtp-use-starttls" setting, which indicates to me that it is intended to be used to connect to a remote mail server. See (1).
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.
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.
I mentioned port 993 only because a login to a server is sometimes required in order for a client to send email; 993 indicates the use of SSL. So, yes, it is an IMAPS port, but knowing about the use of SSL may be relevant to sending mail. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org