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| author | EuAndreh <eu@euandre.org> | 2025-04-18 02:17:12 -0300 |
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| committer | EuAndreh <eu@euandre.org> | 2025-04-18 02:48:42 -0300 |
| commit | 020c1e77489b772f854bb3288b9c8d2818a6bf9d (patch) | |
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| parent | Makefile: Remove security.txt.gz (diff) | |
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diff --git a/src/content/tils/2020/09/04/cli-email-fun-profit.adoc b/src/content/tils/2020/09/04/cli-email-fun-profit.adoc deleted file mode 100644 index 1da1154..0000000 --- a/src/content/tils/2020/09/04/cli-email-fun-profit.adoc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,76 +0,0 @@ -= Send emails using the command line for fun and profit! - -:ssmtp: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSMTP -:mailutils: https://mailutils.org/ - -Here are a few reasons why: - -. send yourself and other people notification of cronjobs, scripts runs, CI - jobs, _etc._ -. leverage the POSIX pipe `|`, and pipe emails away! -. because you can. - -Reason 3 is the fun part, reasons 1 and 2 are the profit part. - -First {ssmpt}[install and configure SSMTP] for using, say, Gmail as the email -server: - -[source,sh] ----- -# file /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf -FromLineOverride=YES -MailHub=smtp.gmail.com:587 -UseSTARTTLS=YES -UseTLS=YES -rewriteDomain=gmail.com -root=username@gmail.com -AuthUser=username -AuthPass=password ----- - -Now install {mailutils}[GNU Mailutils] (`sudo apt-get install mailutils` or the -equivalent on your OS), and send yourself your first email: - -[source,sh] ----- -echo body | mail -aFrom:email@example.com email@example.com -s subject ----- - -And that's about it, you've got mail. Here are some more places where it might -be applicable: - -[source,sh] ----- -# report a backup cronjob, attaching logs -set -e - -finish() { - status=$? - if [[ $status = 0 ]]; then - STATUS="SUCCESS (status $status)" - else - STATUS="FAILURE (status $status)" - fi - - mail user@example.com \ - -s "Backup job report on $(hostname): ${STATUS}" \ - --content-type 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' \ - -A"$LOG_FILE" <<< 'The log report is in the attachment.' -} -trap finish EXIT - -do-long-backup-cmd-here ----- - -[source,sh] ----- -# share the output of a cmd with someone -some-program | mail someone@example.com -s "The weird logs that I was talking about" ----- - -...and so on. - -You may consider adding a `alias mail='mail -aFrom:email@example.com'` so you -don't keep re-entering the ``From:'' part. - -Send yourself some emails to see it working! |