A simple command line based email client written in Python.
This new program is based on my old python email client which you can find here: https://github.com/Tijndagamer/Python_Email_Client
First, clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/Tijndagamer/PyMail.git
Then make pymail executable:
cd PyMail/src
chmod +x pymail
Then you can move pymail to ~/bin/ so you can use it everywhere:
mv pymail ~/bin/
Change line 21 to the correct path:
install_path = "/home/$your_name/bin/"If you still can't run pymail from other place than ~/bin, you have add this line to ~/.bashrc:
echo export PATH=~/bin:"$PATH"
and then run this command:
. .bashrc
If you don't want to re-enter your credentials every time you use PyMail you can run
pymail config
This will store your credentials in a place where PyMail can find it, but please note that the files generated by config are not encrypted or protected.
If you want to use the UI, you first have to build it. First, execute this:
cd PyMail/src/pymail_cli
Before you compile it, you have to change line 12 in pymail_cli_main.c to where you've installed pymail:
char *pymail_install_dir = "/dir/to/pymail";
Then you can compile it:
make
And move the new file to ~/bin
#####Sending an email can be done in two ways.
The first way is to simply run this command:
pymail send
After you hit enter, you wil be prompted to enter the email address of the receiver of the email, the subject of the email and the body of the email.
The second way is to this command:
pymail send <receiver> <subject> <body>
This will immediately sent the email to receiver with subject as subject and body as body. **Please note that any arguments given which should contain spaces, you have to put double quotes around them.
#####Receiving an email can also be done in two ways.
The first way is to simply run this command:
pymail receive
This command will retrieve and print the latest email.
The second way is to run this command:
pymail receive <n>
This will retrieve the nth email in your email. (-1 being the latest email you got)
Tip: If you receive an email full of HTML you can tunnel the output to a html file like this:
pymail receive > email.html
You can also read an email you wrote using another text editor and send it using the file option:
pymail file <filename> <delete_concept>
The layout of your file should be like this:
to_address
--- --- ---
subject
--- --- ---
body
######Other options
If you're not sure what the options were again, run this:
pymail help
This command wil print a short list of the possible options.
- When the subject is given from the command line it cannot have any spaces in it (this is fixed when you put it between quotes or double quotes)