sendEmail

SendEmail is a lightweight, command line SMTP email client. If you have the need to send email from a command line, this free program is perfect: simple to use and feature rich. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl programs and web sites, but is quite adaptable and will likely meet your requirements. SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires NO MODULES. It has an intuitive and flexible set of command-line options, making it very easy to learn and use. SendEmail is licensed under the GNU GPL, either version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version. [Supported Platforms: Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, & Windows XP]

sendEmail - Send email from a console near you! Written by: Brandon Zehm [email protected]

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Installation

SendEmail is a perl script/program, and only needs to be copied to a directory in your path to make it accessible. Most likely the following steps will be sufficient:

1. Extract the package tar -zxvf sendEmail-v1.XX.tar.gz

2. Copy the sendEmail.pl script (and it's symlink sendEmail) to /usr/local/bin cp -a sendEmail-v1.XX/sendEmail.pl /usr/local/bin

3. Make sure its executable chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sendEmail.pl

4. Run it sendEmail.pl or /usr/local/bin/sendEmail.pl or if it's symlinked to "sendEmail" and in your path, just run: sendEmail

NOTES:

• Running sendEmail without any arguments will display a helpful usage summary.
• SendEmail is written in Perl, so no compilation is needed.
• On a Unix/Linux OS if your perl binary is not installed at /usr/bin/perl you may need to edit the first line of the script accordingly.

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Usage Overview

sendEmail-1.56 by Brandon Zehm [email protected]

Synopsis: sendEmail -f ADDRESS [options]

Required: -f ADDRESS from (sender) email address * At least one recipient required via -t, -cc, or -bcc * Message body required via -m, STDIN, or -o message-file=FILE

Common: -t ADDRESS [ADDR ...] to email address(es) -u SUBJECT message subject -m MESSAGE message body -s SERVER[:PORT] smtp mail relay, default is localhost:25

Optional: -a FILE [FILE ...] file attachment(s) -cc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] cc email address(es) -bcc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] bcc email address(es) -xu USERNAME username for SMTP authentication -xp PASSWORD password for SMTP authentication

Paranormal: -b BINDADDR[:PORT] local host bind address -l LOGFILE log to the specified file -v verbosity, use multiple times for greater effect -q be quiet (i.e. no STDOUT output) -o NAME=VALUE advanced options, for details try: --help misc -o message-content-type=<auto|text|html|other> -o message-file=FILE -o message-format=raw -o message-header=HEADER -o message-charset=CHARSET -o reply-to=ADDRESS -o timeout=SECONDS -o username=USERNAME -o password=PASSWORD -o tls=<auto|yes|no> -o fqdn=FQDN

Help: --help the helpful overview you're reading now --help addressing explain addressing and related options --help message explain message body input and related options --help networking explain -s, -b, etc --help output explain logging and other output options --help misc explain -o options, TLS, SMTP auth, and more

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Examples

Send a simple email:

    sendEmail -f [email protected]      \
            -t [email protected]    \
            -s smtp.gmail.com:587  \
            -xu [email protected]       \
            -xp MY-PASSWORD        \
            -u "Test email"        \
            -m "Hi buddy, this is a test email."

Sending to mutiple people:

    sendEmail -f [email protected] \
            -t "Scott Thomas <[email protected]>" [email protected] [email protected] \
            -s relay.isp.net     \
            -u "Test email"      \
            -m "Hi guys, this is a test email."

Sending to multiple people using cc and bcc recipients: (notice the different way I specified multiple To recipients, you can do this for cc and bcc as well)

  sendEmail -f [email protected] \
            -t [email protected];[email protected];[email protected] \
            -cc [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] \
            -bcc [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] \
            -s relay.isp.net \
            -u "Test email with cc and bcc recipients" \
            -m "Hi guys, this is a test email."

Sending to multiple people with multiple attachments:

  sendEmail -f [email protected] \
            -t [email protected] \
            -cc [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] \
            -s relay.isp.net \
            -u "Test email with cc and bcc recipients" \
            -m "Hi guys, this is a test email." \
            -a /mnt/storage/document.sxw "/root/My Documents/Work Schedule.kwd"

Sending an email with the contents of a file as the message body:

  cat /tmp/file.txt | sendEmail -f [email protected] \
                                -t [email protected] \
                                -s relay.isp.net \
                                -u "Test email with contents of file"

Sending an email with the contents of a file as the message body (method 2):

  sendEmail -f [email protected] \
            -t [email protected] \
            -s relay.isp.net \
            -o message-file=/tmp/file.txt \
            -u "Test email with contents of file"

Sending an html email: (make sure your html file has at the beginning)

  cat /tmp/file.html | sendEmail -f [email protected] \
                                 -t [email protected] \
                                 -s relay.isp.net \
                                 -u "Test email with html content"

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Contributors

Many thanks go to the people who have submitted ideas and patches. I know I've forgotten to mention everyone who's helped with sendEmail, but here is a small list. Please let me know if you feel your name should be here!

v1.56

• Several people submitted fixes for the authentication bug. Thanks to all of you for nagging me to get this release out!

Simon Matter (v1.55)

• Local bind address patch

CBL Team http://cbl.abuseat.org/ and Chris Peay (v1.55)

• Bug reports about sendEmail causing people get blacklisted.

Jared Cheney (v1.42)

• More bare LF bug fixes and bare period encoding.
• Mime encoding patch

Buddy Nahay (v1.41)

• Bare LF bug report

John Rouillard (v1.41)

• html detection bug report

Reidar Johansen (v1.40)

• Added support for HTML email
• Created a function called tz_offset that determines the local timezone
• Many other fixes and suggestions

Paul Kreiner (v1.40)

• Submitted a patch that forces the timestamp string to always follow the HH:MM:SS convention required by the RFCs.

Al Danial

• Found and reported a logging/typo/attachment issue in v1.32

Svante Gerhard

• Found and reported the file attachment/padding issue in v1.31

Charles Leeds

• Put together all the original file attachment code and got me on the path to v1.3x
• Provided the compiled Windows executable version of sendEmail for a LONG time. I really appreciate your help!

Nick Pasich

• Passing the email message via STDIN
• Multiple recpients
• Log file option
• Quiet option
• Cc option
• Lots of other suggestions and code

Richard Duim

• For mime/content-type/attachment suggestions

Ulisses Montenegro

• First one to report problems with bare LF's on qmail servers

Michael Santy

• Reported problems with various SMTP servers and helped me fix a few fairly serious problems.

Many other people have submitted bug reports and helped to make sendEmail what it is today, and my best regards go out to all those .. complainers ;-)