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Saurabh Agrawal
Saurabh Agrawal

Reputation: 1365

Sending email through Cygwin

I have a written a shell script wherein I want to send an email through it. I am executing this script on windows through cygwin. I have installed email package on my machine. However, I am having a hard time making it work. Please let me know what is the easiest way to send email through cygwin command prompt.

My ssmtp.conf file is :

mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
FromLineOverride=YES
rewriteDomain=gmail.com
[email protected]
UseTLS=YES
AuthUser=userid
AuthPass=password

and email.conf file has:

SMTP_SERVER = 'smtp.gmail.com'
SMTP_PORT = '25'
MY_NAME  = 'ABC'
MY_EMAIL = 'emailaddress'
REPLY_TO = 'emailaddress'
USE_TLS = 'true'
ADDRESS_BOOK = '&/email.address.template'
SMTP_AUTH = 'LOGIN'
SMTP_AUTH_USER = 'userid'
SMTP_AUTH_PASS = 'password'

I am using below command to send email: echo "mail body"|email -s "subject" [email protected] However, I am getting following error: email: FATAL: Could not connect to server: smtp.gmail.com on port: 25: Operation not permitted

Please help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7929

Answers (2)

Zombo
Zombo

Reputation: 1

I use the msmtp package, with this configuration:

port 587
auth on
from [email protected]
host smtp.gmail.com
tls on
tls_certcheck off
user [email protected]

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=msmtp&arch=x86_64

Upvotes: 1

Gene Pauly
Gene Pauly

Reputation: 1645

Install and configure the ssmtp package.

Create /bin/mail with these contents:

#!/bin/sh
#
# copyright 2016 Gene Pavlovsky [http://www.razorscript.com]
#
# mail: mail-like wrapper script for sendmail

SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/ssmtp

usage()
{
  {
    echo "Usage: $(basename $0) [-s "subject"] [-f from-addr] [to-addr]..."
    echo
    echo "Sends mail."
    echo
    echo "Options:"
    echo -e "  -s\tsubject (quote subjects containing spaces)"
    echo -e "  -f\tfrom address"
  } >&2
  exit 2
}

while test $# -gt 0; do
  case $1 in
    -s)
            shift
            test $# -eq 0 && usage
            subj=$1
    ;;
    -f)
            shift
            test $# -eq 0 && usage
            from=$1
    ;;
    -*)
      usage
    ;;
    *)
            rcpt+=( "$1" )
    ;;
  esac

  shift
  test "$end_options" = yes && break
done

test ${#rcpt} -eq 0 && usage

{
    test "$from" && echo From: $from
    test "$subj" && echo Subject: $subj
    echo
    exec /bin/cat
} | "$SENDMAIL" "${rcpt[@]}"

Don't forget to chmod 755 /bin/mail.

Upvotes: 1

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