http://github.com/goerz/mail.pl
Author: Michael Goerz
The mail.pl script allows to send email messages with attachments through an SMTP server that requires authentification. The message can optionally be encrypted and signed with GPG, and attachments can be zipped in various ways.
This code is licensed under the GPL
Store the mail.pl script anywhere in your $PATH.
mail.pl depends on a number of Perl modules which can be obtained from
CPAN (try sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell).
- MIME::Entity
- MIME::Types
- MIME::Parser
- MIME::Head
- MIME::Base64
- Mail::GPG
- Email::Date
- Email::MessageID
- Term::ReadPassword
- IO::Socket::INET
- IO::Socket::SSL
- Net::SSLeay
- Archive::Zip
- Digest::HMAC_MD5
Usage: ./mail.pl [parameters] [attachments]
Parameters are:
--to=<addresslist> Recipients of message. You can use 'undisclosed recipients' to
leave this blank
--from=<address> From-address
--cc=<addresslist> Carbon copy recipients
--bcc=<addresslist> Blind carbon copy recipients
--subject=<string> Subject line of the message
--text=<string> Text of the message. \n gets escaped to newline,
\\ to \. Make sure that string is enclosed in single
quotes, otherwise you get weird escaping issues in bash.
--help Show this information
--backup=<folder> Save an additional eml backup of the message in <folder>. File is
saved even if the sending fails. (default: off)
--signature Append ~/.signature (default: off)
--sign Sign with GPG (default: off)
--encrypt Encrypt with GPG (default: off)
--xmailer=<string> The xmailer field that appears in the headers
--editor=<command> Instead of taking the email's text from stdin, use this editor
--gpgmode=<mime|armor> Set GPG to MIME (default) or Armor
--host=<smtphost> The SMTP hostname
--port=<portnumber> The smtp server's port (25)
--user=<username> Username for the host
--pass=<password> The SMTP password belonging to user
--sentmailfolder=<folder> The message is saved in this folder as an eml file,
in addition to sending it (it's even saved there if
the sending fails).
--gpgkey=<key> The GPG key used for signing.
--gpgpass=<password> The password belonging to gpgkey
--zipfolders if a folder is passed as attachment, should it be zipped, or
should the program abort (default: on)
--zip=<filename> Put all attachments into a compressed zip file named <filename>,
and attach only that zip file (default: off)
--sentbcc=<addresslist> Additional BCC list that should *always* receive a
copy (e.g. a 'Sent' copy for yourself)
--configfile=<file> An alternative config file.
--hello_host Hostname for the HELO string.
--disable_ehlo Don't use EHLO, only HELO (default: off)
--force-ehlo' Use EHLO even if server doesn't say ESMTP (default: off)
--encryption[=0|=1] Set this to 0 in order to not use encryption even if the
remote host offers it (No TLS/SSL). (default: on)
--auth Enable all methods of SMTP authentication (default: on)
--auth_login Enable only AUTH LOGIN method (default: off)
--auth_plain Enable only AUTH PLAIN method (default: off)
--auth_cram_md5 Enable only AUTH CRAM-MD5 method (default: off)
--auth_digest_md5 Enable only AUTH DIGEST-MD5 method (default: off)
--textfile=<file> File that should be used to fill the email's text
--emlfile=<file> Email an already finished eml file. All recipients (except BCC)
are taken from the headers. In general, there is no way to modify
any part of the message, any such command line options or settings
will be ignored. Missing fields can be filled up, however.
Encryption can be applied to an unencrypted eml file.
--leave_eml_date Together with --emlfile: use the date field that is specified in
the headers of the eml file. Default is off, i.e. replace the
date field with the current time.
--nochecks Don't check email addresses for well-formedness. Use this to mail to
user@localhost, e.g. Careful with this, you can mess up your headers!
--charset The character set for the message. Careful with this!
Changing this option doesn't change the charset, which
depends on your system, only the headers
--verbose Print out the SMTP communication, for debugging
--editor The editor used to edit the email text before it is sent.
--ask_for_cc Should the program ask for a CC? (default: off)
--ask_for_bcc Should the program ask for a BCC? (default: off)
--to_list=<file> Send the email to the list of addresses specified in this file
--cc_list=<file> CC the email to the list of addresses specified in this file
--bcc_list=<file> BCC the email to the list of addresses specified in this file
--expandlist=<file> Use this file as an "addressbook" to expand addresses. For example,
if the line "Michael Goerz <goerz@physik.fu-berlin.de>" is in the
file, when you enter "Michael Goerz", or "goerz@physik" in To,
or CC, the program will replace those strings with the line form the
file.
--recipientrules=<file> Read per-recipient rules from this file, that can determine whether the
the email will be encrypted, signed, and appended a signature. The file
must have one rule per line, consisting of an email address followed by
the fields sign, nosign, encrypt, noencrypt, signature, nosignature. For
example:
goerz@physik.fu-berlin.de encrypt nosignature sign
Turning an option off overrides turning the option on in case of conflict.
Values containing spaces must be quoted.
You can specify defaults for any of these parameters in your config file
at /Users/goerz/.mailpl/mailpl.rc. The syntax is the same as above, but leave out the leading
'--'. For backup, signature, sign, encrypt, etc., append '= 1' or '= 0'. You
can have spaces left and right of the the '=', also blank lines and comments
are allowed
An example file would be:
from = 'My Name <my.name@my.server.com>'
gpgmode = mime # 'mime' or 'armor' armor can't handle attachments!
host = mail.server.com # the smtp server
port = 25 # the smtp server's port
xmailer = 'mail.pl' # The X-Mailer field
user = 'username' # username for the host
pass = 'secret ' # leave this as '' if you don't want to save the
# SMTP password
backup = '/path/sentfolder' # the message is saved in this folder as
# an eml file in addition to sending it.
# (it's even saved there if the sending fails).
gpgkey = '2E7DAEC1' # GPG key used for signing.
gpgpass = '' # if you want to you can save your GPG password but
# I don't suggest it. If you leave this blank (you
# should), you will be asked for it.
editor = 'kwrite' # use this editor to write the email text
expandlist = '/Users/goerz/.mailpl/addressbook.txt'
recipientrules = '/Users/goerz/.mailpl/recipientrules.txt'
Command line parameters overwrite your settings in the config file.
If you do not provide the --from --to, --subject, or --text
parameters, or if the format of the parameters was invalid, the
program will ask you for the information. Also, it will ask for
any non-saved passwords. All other parameters must be given in
the config file or on the command line.
Attachments can be any exisiting file.
Note: If you use no password for gpg, you will have to modify Mail::GPG