email

name	email
description	Send emails via SMTP or sendmail. Use when sending transactional emails or notifications programmatically.
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Email

Send emails via command line.

Using sendmail/msmtp

• Send email: echo "Body" | sendmail [e-mail]
• With subject: echo -e "Subject: Hello\n\nBody text" | sendmail -t [e-mail]

Using SMTP with curl

curl --url "smtps://${SMTP_HOST}:${SMTP_PORT}" \
  --mail-from "[e-mail]" \
  --mail-rcpt "[e-mail]" \
  --user "${SMTP_USER}:${SMTP_PASS}" \
  --upload-file email.txt

email.txt format

From: Sender <[e-mail]>
To: Recipient <[e-mail]>
Subject: Subject line
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Body text here.

Notes

• Configure msmtp at ~/.msmtprc
• Never hardcode SMTP credentials in scripts