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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
