1 Apr
2010
1 Apr
'10
6:27 a.m.
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
Is it possible to send mail from CLI (bash, python) without any LOCAL SMTP installed, using SMTP on another machine. Care to give a glimpse of the code?
One approach
step 1: make sure packages 'expect' and 'telnet' are installed step 2: read: man autoexpect and RFC 2821 ... see worked example for handing email to a remote server http://www.owlriver.com/tips/sendmail-tip/ http://www.owlriver.com/tips/trace-sendmail/ step 3: experiment to taste in talking the protocol. 'expect' and autoexpect makes it trivial to build a script that works
-- Russ herrold