title: sendmail-util

Background

Sometimes it's useful to send an email from the command line. The ancient Linux tools like sendmail, exim, and postfix are somewhat complicated to setup because they have so many options and capabilities. When you don't want a complete SMTP server with user aliasing, relaying from selected servers, etc., when you want to just connect to the recipient's SMTP server directly and deliver the message, and you want to do it from the command line, but you don't want to use telnet :) then you might find this package useful.

Abstract

The @underlake/sendmail-util package provides a command line interface to the sendmail library which delivers the message.

Install

npm install -g @underlake/sendmail-util

Usage

Console help

sendmail --help

Send text message

sendmail --from [email protected] --to [email protected] --subject "text greeting" --text "hello world"

Send html message

sendmail --from [email protected] --to [email protected] --subject "html greeting" --html "hello <b>world</b>"

Multiple recipients

sendmail --from [email protected] --to [email protected] --to [email protected] --subject "multi greeting" --text "hello everyone"

Attachments

sendmail --from [email protected] --to [email protected] --subject "files" --text "see attachments" --attach /path/to/file1 --attach /path/to/file2