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July 4, 2023 10:30
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A simple script that sends emails from bash using CURL
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#!/bin/bash | |
# Change these details accordingly | |
SMTP_HOST='smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465' | |
SENDER_EMAIL='[email protected]' | |
SENDER_PASSWORD='yourpassword' | |
RECEIVER_EMAIL='[email protected]' | |
# Generate body of email in a file | |
echo "From: $SENDER_EMAIL" > emailbody | |
echo "To: $RECEIVER_EMAIL" >> emailbody | |
echo "Subject: This is an example subject" >> emailbody | |
echo "Date: $(date)" >> emailbody | |
echo "Hello world" >> emailbody | |
# Send email. You can change the url according tou your host | |
curl --url $SMTP_HOST --ssl-reqd \ | |
--mail-from $SENDER_EMAIL \ | |
--user "$SENDER_EMAIL:$SENDER_PASSWORD" \ | |
-T emailbody \ | |
--mail-rcpt $RECEIVER_EMAIL | |
# You can add more receivers by repeating the --mail-rcpt argument |
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