| name | email |
| description | Send emails via SMTP or sendmail. Use when sending transactional emails or notifications programmatically. |
| metadata | {"category":"messaging","dependencies":{"cli":"sendmail","checkCommand":"which sendmail || which msmtp","install":{"darwin":{"brew":"msmtp"},"linux":{"apt":"msmtp"}}},"config":[{"name":"SMTP_HOST","label":"SMTP Server","type":"string","required":false},{"name":"SMTP_PORT","label":"SMTP Port","type":"string","required":false}]} |
Email
Send emails via command line.
Using sendmail/msmtp
- Send email:
echo "Body" | sendmail recipient@example.com
- With subject:
echo -e "Subject: Hello\n\nBody text" | sendmail -t recipient@example.com
Using SMTP with curl
curl --url "smtps://${SMTP_HOST}:${SMTP_PORT}" \
--mail-from "sender@example.com" \
--mail-rcpt "recipient@example.com" \
--user "${SMTP_USER}:${SMTP_PASS}" \
--upload-file email.txt
email.txt format
From: Sender <sender@example.com>
To: Recipient <recipient@example.com>
Subject: Subject line
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Body text here.
Notes
- Configure msmtp at
~/.msmtprc
- Never hardcode SMTP credentials in scripts