How to send mail with cygwin?

parthmittal2007 · #1 02-10-2012

Hi,
Can anybody help me about how to send a mail with the help of Cygwin(its a tool which provide a Unix environment on windows)
I tried the mailx command but its not working..

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any substitute for doing this..

Corona688 · #2 02-10-2012

In what way is it "not working"?

Did you actually install any MTA? Cygwin doesn't come with every possible command in the universe. If you want something really simple, I suggest ssmtpd, an "imitation" mail-transport agent which is actually a mail client, not a mail server, and sends through one smtp account that you configure.

parthmittal2007 · #3 02-11-2012

Hi Corona688
Thanks for the information.I don't well understand the concept.
Can you please give me an example.

Thanks..

Corona688 · #4 02-12-2012

I don't understand what you want, ask a more specific question and I'll give a more specific answer.

parthmittal2007 · #5 02-12-2012

Thanks for showing the interest.

I have Cygwin installed on my windows also i have updated the cygwin with ssmtp package.
Now what i want to do is-:
I want to send mail with the help of cygwin, suppose i have written a script which is executing and if the script found that the certain condition had met it should send mail the user xyz@gmail.com , that what i actually want to do.

Please help me about this matter.Its really important to me.

Aia · #6 02-12-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by parthmittal2007

Thanks for showing the interest.

I have Cygwin installed on my windows also i have updated the cygwin with ssmtp package.
Now what i want to do is-:
I want to send mail with the help of cygwin, suppose i have written a script which is executing and if the script found that the certain condition had met it should send mail the user xyz@gmail.com , that what i actually want to do.

Please help me about this matter.Its really important to me.

If you use ssmtp
edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf to have the following:

Quote:

root=xyz@gmail.com

# See also Configuring other mail clients - Gmail Help
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

# The address where the mail appears to come from for user authentification.
rewriteDomain=gmail.com

# The full hostname
hostname=localhost

# Use SSL/TLS before starting negotiation
UseTLS=Yes
UseSTARTTLS=Yes

# Username/Password
AuthUser=xyz@gmail.com
AuthPass=xyx_password

# Email 'From header's can override the default domain?
FromLineOverride=yes

Install email
Edit /etc/email/email.conf to have the following:

Quote:

SENDMAIL_BIN = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i'
MY_NAME = 'CoolGuy'
MY_EMAIL = 'xyz@gmail.com'
REPLY_TO = 'xyz@gmail.com'

After that you should be able use email command to send emails via gmail.

Code:

email -s "It worked!" xyz@gmail < message.file

nagios · #7 05-26-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aia

If you use ssmtp
edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf to have the following:

Install email
Edit /etc/email/email.conf to have the following:

After that you should be able use email command to send emails via gmail.

Code:

email -s "It worked!" xyz@gmail < message.file

or

Code:

echo "Cool Guy" | email -s "From The Vault of Awesomeness"

Both email and ssmtp have a configuration script to help you add the settings.

However, ssmtp-config doesn't present to you all the settings necessary.

Hi,
I have tried the configuration of email and when i hv tried the code

Code:

email -s "It worked!" xyz@gmail < message.file

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