Send e-mails from the command line

[MrOaiki]

I have googled. I have found various tutorials. I've tried everything, yet I can not get it to work. I want to send e-mails from my command line (and from my Bash script). Most tutorials out there refer to a Gmail account and using it as a mail hub. I do however want to use my own web host, who supports SMTP and SMTPS (SSL/TLS) for outgoing mail.

The closest I've gotten to send an e-mail was an error saying "550".

Any good ideas on where to begin?

[malakai]

Most reasons for using Gmail is that a lot of ISP's block a home setup also many dynamic ranges get blocked because of abuse so they get the entire block that an ISP will serve out and no matter what you do it will fail 550 indicates unknown mail box recipient.

The first step would be to google "what is my IP"

Put that into a site like http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml a popular spam filter and if you come back in red you will face problems you can't overcome. Second contact your ISP if all looks good and ensure they are not blocking you.

By relaying through Gmail you overcome all the obstacles of rejections. Can you post some of the things you have tried and any other error messages as 550 would indicate it is working either your own server is generating the error because it is only trying to reach local the address on itself or you are getting the error from a remote server which means you have a working setup to the point your server is communicating with another server somewhere.

[MrOaiki]

I tried:

http://c-mobberley.com/wordpress/index. ... h-postfix/
http://iqjar.com/jar/sending-emails-fro ... pberry-pi/
http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/12/01/ho ... mand-line/
http://rpi.tnet.com/project/faqs/smtp (quite clear instructions, but didn't work)
http://blog.a-netz.de/2012/12/sending-m ... pberry-pi/ (also quite clear, but no luck)

However, since asking my question here, I finally found a way that worked flawlessly. A program called sendEmail. No configuration files, no nothing. It just worked, right from the terminal!

sendEmail -f "fromaddress" -t "toaddress" -u "Subjectlinei" -m "Mymessage" -s "mysmtpserver":26 -o tls=no -xu "loginusername" -xp "loginpassword"

Done!

[mikez104]

This is exactly what I have been searching for all night. This works great!

[tiny68]

Yep, this worked for me too! I did need to leave out the ":26" for my mail server though.

Many thanks - this is perfect for what I want to do.

[marcelp1]

Excellent program.

I have tried on smtp server with no authentication / username / password and it works.

sendEmail -f "fromaddress" -t "toaddress" -u "Subjectlinei" -m "Mymessage" -s "mysmtpserver":25

where the :25 is the port of the SMTP server, anyone had luck using this with GMail?

[henkoegema]

I tried:

http://c-mobberley.com/wordpress/index. ... h-postfix/
http://iqjar.com/jar/sending-emails-fro ... pberry-pi/
http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/12/01/ho ... mand-line/
http://rpi.tnet.com/project/faqs/smtp (quite clear instructions, but didn't work)
http://blog.a-netz.de/2012/12/sending-m ... pberry-pi/ (also quite clear, but no luck)

However, since asking my question here, I finally found a way that worked flawlessly. A program called sendEmail. No configuration files, no nothing. It just worked, right from the terminal!

sendEmail -f "fromaddress" -t "toaddress" -u "Subjectlinei" -m "Mymessage" -s "mysmtpserver":26 -o tls=no -xu "loginusername" -xp "loginpassword"

Done!

I've been using sendEmail for years with Debian (6.0).
However with Raspbian-wheezy I can't get it working.

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pi@raspberrypi /usr/local/bin $ ./sendEmail -o tls=no -f henk@oegema.com -t henkoegema@gmail.com -u Asterisk bericht -m "Oproep van" -s smtp.gmail.com -xu myusername -xp mypassword 
Oct 17 18:05:05 raspberrypi sendEmail[18784]: NOTICE => Authentication not supported by the remote SMTP server!
Oct 17 18:05:05 raspberrypi sendEmail[18784]: ERROR => Received: 	530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. j7sm194712008eeo.15 - gsmtp

[dtannini]

Does anyone know how to break the email message up into separate lines witihin a php script?
Currently, I've tried below, and it does not work.

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// Send Email notification to let users know a new purchase request has been added to database
$alternate="user1@company.com";
$Email_Date=date('F d, Y');

// Credentials for notification email
$command = "sendEmail";
$from = "-f purchasing@company.com";
$to = $alternate;
$subject = "-u New Purchase Request Alert";

// These lines are the body of the email
$line1 = "A new purchase request has been generated by $Requestor on $Email_Date at $Req_Time.";
$line2 = "This is more information on Line 2.";
$line3 = "This is more information on Line 3.";
$body = $line1 . PHP_EOL . $line2 . PHP_EOL . $line3;

// Mail server and credentials
$server = "-s server.com";
$username = "-xu username@company.com";
$password = "-xp password";

// Concatenate all variables to create sendEmail executable command
$cmd = $command." ".$from." "."-t"." " .$to." ".$subject. " "."-m"." ".$body." ".$server." ".$username." ".$password;

// Execute sendEmail command
echo exec ($cmd);

When I don't try to break the lines (PHP_EOL, or other methods like /r/n, /n) it works fine.
What is the correct code here?

[DougieLawson]

Stick "\r\n" on the end of each line.