[SOLVED] Suggest an email program please.

[b1ackmai1er]

Hi,

I am using Calibre to generate news e-books files on my TC server and would like to automatically send the completed file by email to a recipient when complete or at a specific time.

Could someone recommend a email program (from the many available!) that would be suitable to easily send this file to a specified email address. I do not need to receive email just send in some scripted manner.

Would someone suggest a good email package to try? Thank you

[Rich]

Hi b1ackmai1er
Remus is looking to send emails using shell scripts, he is in the process of updating mutt:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12787.msg70001.html#msg70001

[gutmensch]

I submitted mailx to the repository, formerly known as "nail", which can also be used to send mails from shell scripts without the need for local smtp relaying or serving, e.g.

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mailx -r “myaddress@something.com” -s “Some subject” -S smtp=some.smtp.server info@company.com < msg.txt
reference: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=143690

[b1ackmai1er]

Thanks guys, I will try mailx and if I get nowhere with that I will buzz Remus.

Cheers.

[b1ackmai1er]

Thanks guys I have mailx working.

Am surprised how big a package install you need just to send an e-mail!

regards Phil

[b1ackmai1er]

@gutmensch

Hi, I managed to get mailx working with my internet provider mail account but am stuck on getting it to work with gmail

My  command is :

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mailx -v -r account@gmail.com -s 'mail test' -a /mnt/sdc1/uploads/attachement.zip -S smtp=smtp.gmail.com account@gmail.com </mnt/sdc1/uploads/message.txt

but I get the error:

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530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. rv5sm18561052pbc.56
smtp-server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. rv5sm18561052pbc.56

The documentation

http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx/mailx.1.html#16

indicates I need to set the environment variable

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smtp-use-starttls

But I cannot work out how to do this. I have tried:

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set smtp-use-starttls=""
But it does not work. could anyone suggest anything?

Thankyou

[b1ackmai1er]

tried export command instead of set:

export MAILRC=smtp-use-starttls

and

export MAILRC=smtp-use-starttls=yes

and

export MAILRC="/dev/null smtp-use-starttls=yes" (with and with =yes)

but still getting must issue start ttls command first.

[b1ackmai1er]

Finally got it to work thanks to this page

http://fclose.com/b/linux/1411/sending-email-from-mailx-command-in-linux-using-gmails-smtp/

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mailx -n -v -r account@gmail.com -s 'test' -a /mnt/sdc1/uploads/attachment.zip -S smtp-auth-user=account@gmail.com -S smtp-use-starttls -S ssl-verify=ignore -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp-auth-password=mypassword -S smtp=smtp.gmail.com account@gmail.com < /mnt/sdc1/uploads/message.txt

Regards Phil

[gutmensch]

nice work AFAIR you can set the environment variables for mailx/nail in the /usr/local/etc/nail.rc file. so if you would put in it

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set smtp-use-starttls
it should work, even for all other parameter you mentioned above.


[edit]
about the size:
yes, postfix is bit of a monster because of its dependencies, one could possibly find a lighter *bin/sendmail provider like msmtp, I'll check and create an extension
[/edit]

[gutmensch]

Uploaded msmtp and updated mailx dep to not automatically use postfix. Info file indicates the need of sendmail and leaves the choice between msmtp.tcz and postfix.tcz

[curaga]

If looking for a smaller package, I think busybox sendmail would work too (standalone). Note I don't think it supports SSL so not for gmail.

[herrMnnn]

I figure this is simple stuff for most forum members, but as a newbie this as taken me hours to research and solve.

I spent some time trying to get msmtp working with a gmail account, so thought I'd share what I've found and what now works for me.

NB I have a minimal Core system with no GUI, and so I do not have firefox installed as per the directions in the above link.

With msmtp and mailx extensions installed,

Created .msmtprc file in home directory and edited as follows:

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account default
host smtp.gmail.com
port 587
protocol smtp
auth on
from myaddress@gmail.com
user myaddress
password mypassword
tls on
tls_starttls on
tls_trust_file /home/tc/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.cer
I ran chmod 0600 on this file after creating it 'cos I read somewhere that I should.  Not sure how secure this all is as the file contains my password in clear text?

My main problem was finding a valid tls_trust_file, so I eventually found and downloaded one:

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wget http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root_certificates/certificates/Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.cer
I don't understand this certificate stuff but it works - please chime in if I am opening my system up to spammers...

I then created a .mailrc file in my home directory, and edited as follows:

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account gmail {
set smtp-use-starttls
set smtp=smtp://smtp.gmail.com:587
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=myaddress@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=mypassword
set from="myaddress@gmail.com"
}

Did a chmod 0600 on that file too for what it's worth...

I can now send emails via my gmail account:

to just send a message from a script:

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tc@box:~$ echo "This is the message body" | mailx -A gmail -s "This is the  message Subject" sendtoaddress@isp.com.au
or to send a log file in the message body

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tc@box:~$ cat somelogfile | mailx -A gmail -s "somelogfile in body :-)" sendtoaddress@isp.com.au
Can someone confirm if this setup is ok or otherwise, specifically with regards to security?  I am the only user of this system, which has passwords setup but still uses autologin, and has remote access via SSH.

Cheers

Tim

[herrMnnn]

of course it's not quite that straight forward...   

while the above works in my user account, I want to send an email whenever the system reboots.  Putting the above mailx commands in /opt/bootlocal.sh doesn't work, presumably because it isn't accessing the config files in my /home/tc directory.

I copied the .msmtprc file and the certificate into /usr/local/etc and edited the .msmtprc to reflect the path to this certificate. I also changed the ownership of both files to root.  There was already a nail.rc config file there so I edited that to include the settings from my .mailrc file.  I then added the extra files to /opt/.filetool.lst, ran a backup and rebooted.

Email is now sent at boot time as required.   

[gutmensch]

looks good, I also added the gmail case without verifying/trusting of the server to the info file as an example, but yours is absolutely complete I'd say

@bootlocal.sh:
this script is run as root, but you can still run commands as a user like

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su -c '/opt/sendbootmail.sh' tc

@/usr/local/etc/nail.rc, ~/.mailrc
the configuration naming is a bit crazy in mailx... in the Makefile they default to a global file nail.rc (maybe for compatibility) and within user context the file is named ~/.mailrc, I think I will clear this up in the next build.

[curaga]

Looks good, I didn't see anything obvious wrong in that setup.