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Use mailsend to send email from the Terminal
Update: After this article was written I learned of mstmp which I highly recommend instead of mailsend. There are times that I want my iMac to be able to email me: when certain scripts run via cron or launchd, when certain events happen (a backup has been completed), etc. I've found that none of the included command-line programs work. The good news is that, with a UNIX foundation, it was fairly easy to find a free program which would do just that. A little searching turned up a free program called mailsend, which will work. For this example I will be using a Gmail account, which requires OpenSSL. Your mail server may not require OpenSSL support, but if it's possible, I encourage you to use it. The short version of the instructions are as follows: 1) Download and install OpenSSL to /usr/local/ssl/ 2) Download and install mailsend to somewhere in your path such as /usr/local/bin/ 3) Use mailsend -h to learn how to use it on the commandline 4) (Optional) Use TextExpander 3 to fill in some of the variable fields, such as To, Subject, and Message. Read on for more of a step by step walk-through.
