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"title: Send emails using the command line for fun and profit!\n"
"date: 2020-09-04\n"
"layout: post\n"
"lang: en\n"
"ref: send-emails-using-the-command-line-for-fun-and-profit"
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msgid "Here are a few reasons why:"
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msgid ""
"send yourself and other people notification of cronjobs, scripts runs, CI "
"jobs, *etc.*"
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msgid "leverage the POSIX pipe `|`, and pipe emails away!"
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msgid "because you can."
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msgid "Reason 3 is the fun part, reasons 1 and 2 are the profit part."
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"First [install and configure "
"SSMTP](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSMTP) for using, say, Gmail as "
"the email server:"
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msgid ""
"Now install [GNU Mailutils](https://mailutils.org/) (`sudo apt-get install "
"mailutils` or the equivalent on your OS), and send yourself your first "
"email:"
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msgid ""
"And that's about it, you've got mail. Here are some more places where it "
"might be applicable:"
msgstr ""
msgid "...and so on."
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msgid ""
"You may consider adding a `alias mail='mail -aFrom:email@example.com'` so "
"you don't keep re-entering the \"From: \" part."
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msgid "Send yourself some emails to see it working!"
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