{"id":207,"date":"2007-01-10T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/10\/sending-email-from-the-command-line\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T15:58:00","slug":"sending-email-from-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/10\/sending-email-from-the-command-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending email from the command line"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In developing automated scripts that scheduled to run periodically, I need to send email from inside the script to know about the script execution status and if there is any error. Here what I did to install, configure and test an email tool.<\/p>\n


Prerequisite:
– This is tested on Windows XP, sure it works on any Linux distribution.
– You should have cygwin, install from: http:\/\/www.cygwin.com\/<\/a>
– It is important to be familiar with command line environment.<\/p>\n

Run the Cygwin tool, and select “email” tool, see the picture.<\/p>\n

After installation is complete, open the console and run:
$\/usr\/bin\/email-config<\/span><\/p>\n

You will get a series of questions and will have to type answers, like the SMTP server used to send email, and so on…<\/p>\n

After finish, you can easily edit your configuration, use:
$ nano \/etc\/email\/email.conf<\/span><\/p>\n

You can edit your email signature file by:
$ nano \/etc\/email\/email.sig<\/span><\/p>\n

Now you can send email very easily:
write your email text to the file mail.txt, as example:
$echo “this is a test email” >> mail.txt<\/span>
Now send the emai by:
$email -s “my email subject” myemail@mycompany.com <><\/p>\n

for email tool details, type:
$man email<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

From ahm507.blogspot.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In developing automated scripts that scheduled to run periodically, I need to send email from inside the script to know about the script execution status and if there is any error. Here what I did to install, configure and test an email tool. Prerequisite:– This is tested on Windows XP, sure it works on any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahm.basfinans.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}