smtpcli is SMTP Client tool.This command line tool for SMTP client.
Case: Github
::
$ git clone https://github.com/kmn/smtpcli $ cd smtpcli $ sudo python setup.py install $ cp sample/smtpcli.conf.sample $HOME/.smtpcli.conf
and edit $HOME/.smtpcli.conf
Case: Pypi
:: $ sudo pip install smtpcli $ cp sample/smtpcli.conf.sample $HOME/.smtpcli.conf
and edit $HOME/.smtpcli.conf
Setting the configuration file ($HOME/.smtpcli.conf)
An alternative method of command options that use the config file.
Copy examples/.smtpcli.conf.sample to `$HOME/.smtpcli.conf`. `password` key to set password in plain text.
::
#
[smtpcli]
smtp-server = smtp.exmple.org
port = 25
encoding = ISO-2022-JP
mailaddress = user001@exmple.org
password = user001pw
Sending mail
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
::
$ echo "Hello, world!" > msg.txt
$ smtpcli --to user007@example.org --subject "from 001 to 007" \
--file msg.txt
To: user007@example.org
Subject: from 001 to 007
Body: Hello, world!
Send this email? [y/N]
History
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0.4 (2012-09-16)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* fix minor bugs
0.3 (2012-09-16)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* fix minor bugs
0.2 (2012-09-16)
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* fix minor bugs
0.1 (2012-09-16)
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* modify setup.py
0.0 (2012-06)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* first release
See also
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* `RFC 821 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821.html>`_
* `RFC 1896 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1869.html>`_
ToDo
====
Features
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* Sending email.
Improvement
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* Using CC or BCC.
* Send to multiple destination mailaddress.
* Add "--no-confirm " option
* Add siguniture
* gpg
Known bugs
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* garbling when viewing via iPhone.
FAQs
SMTP CLI tool
We found that smtpcli demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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