Email

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name: email description: Send emails via SMTP or sendmail. Use when sending transactional emails or notifications programmatically. metadata: category: messaging dependencies: cli: sendmail checkCommand: which sendmail || which msmtp install: darwin: { brew: msmtp } linux: { apt: msmtp } config: - name: SMTP_HOST label: SMTP Server type: string required: false - name: SMTP_PORT label: SMTP Port type: string required: false

Email

Send emails via command line.

Using sendmail/msmtp

• Send email: echo "Body" | sendmail recipient@example.com
• With subject: echo -e "Subject: Hello\n\nBody text" | sendmail -t recipient@example.com

Using SMTP with curl

curl --url "smtps://${SMTP_HOST}:${SMTP_PORT}" \
  --mail-from "sender@example.com" \
  --mail-rcpt "recipient@example.com" \
  --user "${SMTP_USER}:${SMTP_PASS}" \
  --upload-file email.txt

email.txt format

From: Sender <sender@example.com>
To: Recipient <recipient@example.com>
Subject: Subject line
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Body text here.

Notes

• Configure msmtp at ~/.msmtprc
• Never hardcode SMTP credentials in scripts