NAME
ubmail – send email from the command line
SYNOPSIS
ubmail {–attach <file>{,<file>}} {–bcc <recipient>{,<recipient>}} {–cc <recipient>{,<recipient>}} {–content <content type>} {–debug} {–domain <optional masquerade domain>} {–extract <group>} {–file <filename>} {–header <filename>} {–help} {–nostdin} {–reply-to <recipient>} {–sender <optional sender email>} {–subject <message subject>} {–} <recipient>{,<recipient>}
DESCRIPTION
ubmail is a command line utility to send simple and mime encoded email to a list of recipients.
ubmail can also be used to extract attactments from a mail message
ubmail determines the name of the sender by looking (in order) at the environment variable EMAIL_USER, the environment variable REMOTE_USER, and finally it uses the login user id to determine the sender.
Both ubcgi and ubupload set EMAIL_USER from the unibase.users file.
FLAGS
| FLAG | ARGUMENT | TYPE | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| –attach | name of file(s) to attach | text | attach one or more files to the message. |
| –bcc | recipient list | text | blind copy message to recipient list |
| –cc | recipient list | text | send copy to recipient list |
| –content | mime type | text | mime type of message body. default type is text/plain. |
| –debug | show communications with mailer | ||
| –domain | text | masquerade as this domain.
Use if the fqdn (fully qualified domain name) of the host is not where you want the email to come from. NB this will not fool anti-relaying in mail servers |
|
| –extract | extract group | text | extract mime attachments. Does not attempt to send email.
The output from this form of the command is a list of the mime attachment files The files will be extracted to the current working directory. A copy of the original email (including headers) is stored in /var/spool/ubmail/<group>. The name of the stored file is a date stamp (plus pid of the ubmail process). NB no attempt is made to clean up the spool file. It is up to the application or system administrator to control the contents of this directory. |
| –file | file name | text | get message body from file instead of standard input |
| –help | print usage message | ||
| –nostdin | don’t try to read a message body from standard input. usefull if just attaching a file. | ||
| –reply-to | email address | text | set the Reply-To: header in the message |
| –sender | email address | text | set the From: header in the message. |
| –subject | message subject | text | set the message subject |
| — | optionally mark end of flags. used if a reciptient name could be confused with a flag. |
ERRORS
file not found (2) if an attachment doesn’t exist
EXAMPLE
date | ubmail –subject “TODAY’S DATE” friend@somewhere.com
ubmail –attach image.jpg –nostdin –subject “HOLIDAY SNAP” friend@somewhere.com
FILES=`ubmail –extract incoming`