Bash script emailing capabilities

[dj_bridges]

I need to write a bash script that will ultimately put a load on info into an email and send it off through a gmail account. I have spend some time trying to get sendmail / postfix  etc etc working, but they seem so complicated and I have failed miserably so far. Does anyone know either:

1) How to easily setup a CLI MTA?
2) Another option?

Thanks in advance...

[ongoto]

Just do mail -h on the command line to see the switches and options to use in your command.  For more, see if you can find a man page on Mailx or nail with google.  It's the simplest way.  

[Hootiegibbon]

I need to write a bash script that will ultimately put a load on info into an email and send it off through a gmail account. I have spend some time trying to get sendmail / postfix  etc etc working, but they seem so complicated and I have failed miserably so far. Does anyone know either:

1) How to easily setup a CLI MTA?
2) Another option?

Thanks in advance...

I am posting this from my phone atm so I do not have access to the website detail.

There is an app called dmc "dynamic mail client" that you would need to place a request for, if you are unable to Google the detail post back later and I will post it here for you


Jase

[menotu]

Does this offer any help dj_bridges ?

http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-sendemail-from-the-command-line-using-a-gmail-account-and-others.html

[dj_bridges]

Thanks for all the responses.

ongoto - followed up on mailx and found this website http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/18370-sending-email-text-attachment-using-mailx.html, but we haven't got uuencode in the repos, so couldn't test. Tried modifiying the suggestion from the webpage to remove uuencode, but no mail as yet....

hootiegibbon - couldn't find the program you mentioned in a google search - would appreciate any links. Am happy to put in a request if this is what I am looking for.

menotu - will check the link, but for the last 5 mins it has failed to load!

[pags]

Does this offer any help dj_bridges ?

http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-sendemail-from-the-command-line-using-a-gmail-account-and-others.html

But there is no sendemail in Synaptic.

[Hootiegibbon]

dj_bridges,

Here are some links to the dmc script


mentioned here as a link to 
 http://lolcathost.org/cgi-bin/hg/dmc/summary


On a quick look it appears ot be something like what you require.

Jase

[dj_bridges]

hootiegibbon - thanks for the link. I can't really make out what the application does though. Haven't had much chance to look at it in depth, but will try and do so....