Show HN: Mailer – our in-house tool for sending email from the command line

https://www.dirwiz.com/news/284

by dirwiz • 11 years ago

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brudgers• 11 years ago

Direct link to tool: https://www.dirwiz.com/mailer/

dirwiz4• 11 years ago

Author here.. Thanks. After re-reading the post the link was buried in the article and not that obvious..

jastr• 11 years ago

Have you considered Open Sourcing this? I'd like to use it and I like the syntax. But I'd feel more comfortable if I could check out the source.

ajwinn• 11 years ago

This is probably a dumb question, but how do I get this to work in OS X? Bash says it cannot execute binary file despite chmod +x /path/to/mailer - thanks.

attractiveape• 11 years ago

No provided source code? Is this 1990?

tahssa3• 11 years ago

Complaining when getting something for free? Is this 2015?

cbsmith4• 11 years ago

Considering what it does, the consequent benefits to it being open source, and that there are already open source tools to do this out there, it does not seem like an unfair criticism.

ableal• 11 years ago

Obviously not, in 1990 it would have been published to Usenet group comp.sources, and all you would get would be source. OK, perhaps also a Makefile and a man page. (All packed in a .shar text file, a "shell archive" script that would run and unpack itself.)

Also, at least BSD used to come with /bin/mail, which would send mail from the command line as described. 'mail -s test joe@example.com < file.txt', if memory serves.

GauntletWizard• 11 years ago

In a similar vein but open source is ssmtp. It's a simple MTA that hands off the dirty work of sending e-mail to a real mailserver, and can be configured to use your existing SMTP server as a bounce point, or if you're running a personal server, your gmail account.

nikolay3• 11 years ago

I personally use msmtp [0].

[0] http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/

sarreph• 11 years ago

> It runs on every platform we can think of (Windows 64bit, Linux 32 & 64 Bit, Raspberry Pi!)

How would I go about running the binary on OS X? I assume it's possible? Thanks...

dirwiz4• 11 years ago

Good question. If we can figure out OS X in VirtualBox we should have a good shot at getting a build for Mac working.. Stay tuned...

tracker1• 11 years ago

Just curious what it's written in?

dz0ny• 11 years ago

I prefer swaks

nikolay3• 11 years ago

Thanks for posting! It looks nice!

cbsmith4• 11 years ago

I'm not clear as to why anyone thought this tool was needed or was any more complex than a simple script. This functionality is built in to most platforms.

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