Send email through script

[nhandler]

I've been trying for a while to set up a way to send emails from a perl script or even the terminal. Currently, I use thunderbird to send email. It uses my gmail account and smtp.gmail.com to send the mail. smtp.gmail.com requires all these authentication things to work (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287&topic=1556). Is there any way I can connect to smtp.gmail.com to send mail from the perl script/terminal? I don't need to be able to read mail, just send it. If I could send from an email account other than my own (without making a new account), that would be even better. I have a feeling that will involve a different smtp server, which is fine, as long as it works.

[Ecthelion]

I have a link (http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/sending-mail-with-attachment.html) here for a terminal command to send emails.

Is this what you are looking for?

[Ecthelion]

| Internet site - mail is sent and received directly using SMTP. If your
│ needs don't fit neatly into any category, you probably want to start
│ with this one and then edit the config file by hand.
│ ▮
│ Internet site using smarthost - You receive Internet mail on this
│ machine, either directly by SMTP or by running a utility such as
│ fetchmail. Outgoing mail is sent using a smarthost. optionally with
│ addresses rewritten. This is probably what you want for a dialup system.
| Satellite system - All mail is sent to another machine, called a "smart
│ host" for delivery. No mail is received locally. ▒
│ ▒
│ Local delivery only - You are not on a network. Mail for local users is ▮
│ delivered.

Small part of the configuration...

Just try it out, configure it, and tell us if it worked for you...

[souki]

gmail uses smtp over ssl
so, I think you should use the Net::SMTP::SSL module

[KeithEckstein]

Cheater

I don't know if this is what you are after but I send mail to a Gmail account as part of my nightly backup process - I use MUTT to do this.

The relevant portion of the backup script is as follows...

# And now Mail it to Mozart.Archive@Gmail.com
mutt -s "MailBack" -a /home/keckstein/Data/Tars/MailBack.tar.gz MozartArchive@Gmail.com < backuplog.000

I can obviously do the same thing from the console without having to run it in a script.

Hope this helps

Keith (learning a little more, every day)

[speedman]

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

SM

[Ecthelion]

I don't know if this is what you are after but I send mail to a Gmail account as part of my nightly backup process - I use MUTT to do this.

:mrgreen:

The link I posted previously was to a page where was explained how to install & use MUTT :-D

Note to myself: say to where a posted link goes 8)


To be quite honest, I'm glad someone else recommends it... I just googled for a prog that could be used to send emails using Script/Command-line.
But as I tested it myself it didn't worked...

When I first installed it it asked me to choose one of these
| Internet site - mail is sent and received directly using SMTP. If your
│ needs don't fit neatly into any category, you probably want to start
│ with this one and then edit the config file by hand.
│ ▮
│ Internet site using smarthost - You receive Internet mail on this
│ machine, either directly by SMTP or by running a utility such as
│ fetchmail. Outgoing mail is sent using a smarthost. optionally with
│ addresses rewritten. This is probably what you want for a dialup system.
| Satellite system - All mail is sent to another machine, called a "smart
│ host" for delivery. No mail is received locally. ▒
│ ▒
│ Local delivery only - You are not on a network. Mail for local users is ▮
│ delivered.

However, I think I choosed wrong and configured it wrongly.
Does one of you know how I could reconfigure it using the menus that appeared then?

Reinstalling etc doesn't work #-o


Also, could you tell how you configured it to work with your gmail?



Nevermind, tried sendemail and that worked fine.

[nhandler]

Thank you for all the suggestions. Currently, I am on vacation, and I do not have access to my linux box. I will try these out when I get back.

[nhandler]

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

SM

That program worked perfectly. Now, I just need to remember how to execute terminal commands from within a perl script.

[souki]

with perl, you can use back-quotes :
`the_shell_command args`;

[nhandler]

with perl, you can use back-quotes :
I never new that before. That's pretty cool.