email(USP)

Name

email : SMTP client (mail sending client)

Synopsis

Usage   : email [options] mail_text

Options : --server <servername>     (mandatory)

          --port <port>

          --auth <method>

          --domain <hostname>

          --from <mail_address>     (mandatory)

          --to "<mail_address>..."  (mandatory)

          --cc "<mail_address>..."

          --bcc "<mail_address>..."

          --display-from <display_name>

          --display-to "<display_name>..."

          --display-cc "<display_name>..."

          --reply_to <mail_address>

          --return_path <mail_address>

          --date <date_str>

          --subject <subject>

          --login <loginname>

          --passwd <password>

          --notify <mail_address>

          --misc <arbitrary_text>

          --attach <filename>

          --excel <excelfile>

          --verbose

Version : Fri Jan 12 16:38:19 JST 2024

Edition : 2

Example 1

Communicates with mail server 211.13.204.15 on the SMTP port

(default 25).  User name is "demo@usp-lab.com" and password is

"Demo1234".  Sends an email from sender "demo@usp-lab.com" to

recipients "to_1@usp-lab.com" and "to_2@usp-lab.com" with subject

"Test Mail" and message body "mail_text".  Cc to "cc_1@usp-lab.com"

and "cc_2@usp-lab.com".  Bcc to "bcc_1@usp-lab.com" and

"bcc_2@usp-lab.com".  When sending, files "attach1", "attach2" and

"attach3" are attached.  Also, Excel files "book1.xls" and

"book2.xls" are attached.  If --verbose option is specified, the

top of "To Address"es is output to standard output after sending is

completed.

$ email --server 211.13.204.15 --port 587 \

  --login demo@usp-lab.com --passwd Demo1234 \

  --from demo@usp-lab.com \

  --to "to_1@usp-lab.com to_2@usp-lab.com" \

  --cc "cc_1@usp-lab.com cc_2@usp-lab.com" \

  --bcc "bcc_1@usp-lab.com bcc_2@usp-lab.com" \

  --subject 'Test Mail' \

  --attach attach1 --attach attach2 --attach attach3 \

  --excel book1.xls --excel book2.xls \

  --verbose mail_text

Note

--server --from --to are mandatory.

If --domain is omitted, host name is used.

--to --cc --bcc can specify multiple addresses. Each address group

must be surrounded by double-quotes. Alternately, you can specify

the option multiple times (Example: --to addr1@domain1 --to

addr2@damin2)

Note

--login --passwd are only compatible with ESMTP CRAM-MD5, LOGIN or

PLAIN authentication.  If the server supports multiple

authentication methods, all of the above methods will be tried in

the order written above unless --auth is specified.

If --auth <method> is specified, the following occurs:

--auth none      No authentication

--auth auto      As described above

--auth server    Server specifies which method to use

--auth cram-md5  CRAM-MD5 only

--auth login     LOGIN only

--auth plain     PLAIN only

Note

If you do not specify --return_path or --reply_to then the address

specified in --from will be used automatically. If you do specify

--return_path then the MAIL FROM: field in the mail envelope will be

overwritten with the specified address.

Note

You can specify arbitrary header field with --misc option.  This

option can be specified multiple times, and specfied text is output

in the specfied order.  This option does not check validness. If

you wan to specify continuation line, insert space to top of

<arbitrary_text>.

Note

When using --attach, the Content-Type is set to

application/octet-stream while when using --excel

it is application/vnd.ms-excel.

IMPORTANT

When using FreeBSD, please compile with the command below:

$ cc -static -O3 -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -o email \

email.c -liconv