[Leaplist] CLI mail

[Gray Frost]

Thank you so much for your advice.  I will read up on this more and post
what I end up doing.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:23 AM, John Simpson <jms1 at jms1.net> wrote:

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>> I have always thought it would be nice when I am using a CLI terminal that
>> I
>> could mail a file to someone directly with a simple mail type command from
>> the command line.
>>
>
> it is handy, yes.
>
>
>   I downloaded and installed "mutt".  Now I don't no diddly
>> about mail servers and how to configure it to work with my current mail
>> server so it does not do what I was hoping it would because I don't know
>> what the heck I am doing :(   I can compose a mail, attach files but ummm
>> I
>> can't get it to go anywhere from there.  I am missing something or lots of
>> somethings!
>>
>> 1) Is using mutt what I want to do?
>>
>
> it's one of several command-line MUAs (mail user agents, the "mail program"
> on your workstation. contrast with MTA, mail transport agent, the "mail
> server" software which actually moves message from one machine to another.)
>
>  2) do I need set up some sort of mail server that mutt connects to or do I
>> somehow configure a file to let it know what to use to make it happen.
>>
>
> you do need an MTA of some kind, yes.
>
> most command-line programs will either try to connect to localhost port
> 25/tcp and use SMTP to hand the message to whatever MTA you may be running
> on the machine, some will run "/usr/sbin/sendmail" or "/usr/lib/sendmail"
> instead. most of them can also be configured to use some other method-
> either SMTP to a different IP/port number, or command-line submission with a
> custom command line.
>
> looking at the documentation on http://www.mutt.org/ i can see how to
> configure a different command line program for sending mail, but nowhere to
> set an SMTP server address.
>
> you may want to look into a program called "ssmtp". it's a minimal SMTP
> client program whose command line is structured to work as an almost
> transparent replacement for sendmail, but it doesn't have a local queue-
> when you run it, it connects to a "smarthost" and delivers your message
> immediately. if the delivery fails, ssmtp returns an error code.
>
> it's in the debian repositories, but the original maintainer seems to have
> abandoned it, and nobody has really stepped up to claim "ownership" of it.
> it does work though- i'm running debian on a buffalo linkstation (a
> linux-based NAS device, hacked to use a custom boot-loader and running the
> powerpc version of debian) and it uses ssmtp to deliver all of its outbound
> mail (which is just things like cron output.)
>
>
>  3) in my readings I came across loads of mail server, MTA, mail
>> looking-doing stuff that seemed far more complex than I want to do just to
>> send a mail file from a command line.
>>
>
> again, it depends on the machine and what MTA, if any, it happens to be
> running. there is no one method which can be considered reliable for every
> machine in the world.
>
> spend some time on http://www.mutt.org/ and write a "~/.muttrc" file with
> your preferred settings... then copy that file to a USB stick and carry it
> with you, so if you're using some other machine, you can copy it into place,
> run mutt and do your thing with email, then remove it from that machine if
> needed.
>
>
>  4) am I dreaming?
>>
>
> i'm writing this at 1.15am, so i guess it's possible...
>
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Gray

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