X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; 	charset="US-ASCII"
Subject: RE: CygWin and email clients
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:11:46 -0600
Message-ID: <1766AAD7EABB3E469524048832AF821C0106342A@fastserver2.fastenterprises.com>
In-Reply-To: <1177934981.7708.2.camel@jhereg>
References: <1766AAD7EABB3E469524048832AF821C0101132F AT fastserver2 DOT fastenterprises DOT com> <1177934981 DOT 7708 DOT 2 DOT camel AT jhereg>
From: "Jeremy T. Harrison" <jtharrison AT gentax DOT com>
To: <Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com>, <CygWin AT cygwin DOT com>
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l423Bu7x005292

Thank you for your response -- I will look into mutt.

In the meantime, I was able to tweak ssmtp to take attachments (even
inlining graphics,) flexibly work on different ports from the command
line as well as support TLS.  ...One of those days/nights of rampant
creativity.  :)

If anyone is interested in my scripting, let me know.

Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Reid Thompson [mailto:Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:10 AM
To: Jeremy T. Harrison
Subject: Re: CygWin and email clients

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 18:07 -0600, Jeremy T. Harrison wrote:
> I have tried with varied success to use "ssmtp" and "email" as my
email
> send applications under CygWin.  For what ssmtp was designed to do, it
> works fine, but, doesn't meet my requirements; "email" seems to be a
> stepchild of sorts, and does not meet my needs (it doesn't support
TLS),
> though I do very much like its flexibility otherwise.
> 
> Are any CygWin users out there using a command line e-mail
application?
> My requirements are basically, that I can send e-mail from the command
> line (i.e. from within scripts and from crontab); include attachments;
> and, use different ports as well as TLS.
> 
> I have read variously of scripts to run ssmtp with attachments; but I
> have not come across any of those scripts.  If anyone might be able to
> direct me to such a script I would be grateful!  Notwithstanding, if
> anyone has a different email solution - that meets requirements
> comparable to mine - I would appreciate learning how you meet your
> needs.
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Jeremy Harrison
> 
> jeremy AT harrison DOT net;jtharrison AT gentax DOT com
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
> 

mutt -x -s "this is my subject" -a /this/is/my/attachment
ToWhomever AT whereever DOT com 

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/