How to sendemail from the command line using a Gmail account and others
Posted by Admin on March 27th, 2009
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Install sendemail in debian lenny
#apt-get install sendemail
This will complete the installation.
If you are using Debian Etch you need to compile sendemail from source
Preparing your system
#apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl perl
Download latest version from here
wget http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/sendEmail-v1.55.tar.gz
Uncompress the .tar.gz
#tar zxvf /tmp/sendEmail-v1.55.tar.gz
#cd /tmp/sendEmail-v1.55
Copy the sendEmail script to /usr/local/bin
#cp /tmp/sendEmail-v1.55/sendEmail /usr/local/bin
Make sure its executable
#chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sendEmail
Sendemail Examples
Simple Email Using Gmail Account
sendEmail -f my.account@gmail.com -t myself@domain.tld \
-u this is the test tile -m “this is a test message” \
-s smtp.gmail.com \
-o tls=yes \
-xu usernameonly -xp mypasswd
“usernameonly” must not contain @gmail.com only the username.
Simple Email
sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \
-t myfriend@isp.net \
-s relay.isp.net \
-u “Test email” \
-m “Hi , this is a test email.”
Sending to mutiple people
sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \
-t “admin <admin@isp.net>” user1@isp.net user2@isp.net \
-s relay.isp.net \
-u “Test email” \
-m “Hi this is a test email.”
Sending to multiple people using cc and bcc recipients
(notice the different way we specified multiple To recipients, you can do this for cc and bcc as well)
sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \
-t admin@isp.net;user1@isp.net;user2@isp.net \
-cc user2@isp.net tom@isp.net jess@isp.net \
-bcc ra@isp.net dub@isp.net kay@isp.net \
-s relay.isp.net \
-u “Test email with cc and bcc recipients” \
-m “Hi his is a test email.”
Sending to multiple people with multiple attachments
sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \
-t admin@isp.net \
-cc user1@isp.net user2@isp.net user3@isp.net \
-s relay.isp.net \
-u “Test email with cc and bcc recipients” \
-m “Hi 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 myaddress@isp.net \
-t admin@isp.net \
-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 myaddress@isp.net \
-t admin@isp.net \
-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 <html> at the beginning)
cat /tmp/file.html | sendEmail -f myaddress@isp.net \
-t admin@isp.net \
-s relay.isp.net \
-u “Test email with html content”
Send Short Message Service (SMS)/text message to a cellular phone
Simple Text Message Sent To Cellular Phone Using Gmail Account
./sendEmail -f usernameonly@gmail.com -t 2123334444@txt.att.net \
-m This is an SMS message from Linux.\
-o tls=auto \
-s smtp.gmail.com \
-xu usernameonly -xp mypasswd
Providers
What’s my SMS Email address?
AT&T 10DigitPhoneNumber@txt.att.net
Example: 9055556543@txt.att.net
Cingular 10DigitPhoneNumber@cingularme.com
Metrocall 10DigitPhoneNumber@page.metrocall.com
Nextel 10DigitPhoneNumber@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint PCS 10DigitPhoneNumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile 10DigitPhoneNumber@tmomail.net
Verizon 10DigitPhoneNumber@vtext.com
ALLTEL 10DigitPhoneNumber@message.alltel.com
March 27th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Also see esmtp, it’s compatible with sendmail.
March 27th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Thank You.
I had tried this a year or two ago and gave up easily. I am using Ubuntu 8.10, synaptics for sendemail then a hybrid of your “Simple Email using Gmail account” and “Simple Email”. I’m not using gmail but for a simple email I used fields -f -t -s -xu -xp -u -m
-s mail.mydomain.net
May 29th, 2009 at 1:20 am
I have an Etch server up and running, and followed the instructions here. They worked perfectly, and the script executed successfully, but I am not receiving the email. Perhaps there is a server or router configuration I am missing? Here is the verbose output from my test email.
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => Connecting to localhost:25
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => My IP address is: 127.0.0.1
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => evalSMTPresponse() - Found SMTP success code: 220
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: SUCCESS => Received: 220 myprivateserver.launchmodem.com ESMTP Exim 4.63 Thu, 28 May 2009 16:11:43 -0400
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: INFO => Sending: EHLO myprivateserver.launchmodem.com
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => evalSMTPresponse() - Found SMTP success code: 250
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: SUCCESS => Received: 250-myprivateserver.launchmodem.com Hello root at localhost [127.0.0.1], 250-SIZE 52428800, 250-PIPELINING, 250 HELP
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => The remote SMTP server does NOT support TLS
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: NOTICE => Authentication not supported by the remote SMTP server!
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: INFO => Sending: MAIL FROM:
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => evalSMTPresponse() - Found SMTP success code: 250
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: SUCCESS => Received: 250 OK
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: INFO => Sending: RCPT TO:
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => evalSMTPresponse() - Found SMTP success code: 250
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: SUCCESS => Received: 250 Accepted
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: INFO => Sending: DATA
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => evalSMTPresponse() - Found SMTP success code: 354
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: SUCCESS => Received: 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: INFO => Sending message body
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => Sending the attachment [webFileCheckLog.txt]
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: DEBUG => evalSMTPresponse() - Found SMTP success code: 250
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: SUCCESS => Received: 250 OK id=1M9lx1-0007if-EM
May 28 16:11:43 myprivateserver sendEmail[29676]: Email was sent successfully! From: To: Subject: [test] Attachment(s): [webFileCheckLog.txt] Server: [localhost:25]
October 19th, 2009 at 4:15 am
ERROR => Timeout while connecting to smtp.gmail.com:25 There was no response after 60 seconds.