SendEmail(1)

✨ SendEmail(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to SendEmail β€” the lightweight, command line SMTP email client and honestly? she's an icon, she's a legend, she is the moment πŸ’… no bloated config files, no drama, just vibes and mail. the manual name is SendEmail, and yes you're gonna learn all of her.


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

SendEmail -f ADDRESS [options]

πŸ’– OPTIONS πŸ’–

  • -f ADDRESS β€” the from (sender) email address. this one is basically mandatory, she's the main character 🫢
bestie listen, two things are required or nothing sends: - At least one recipient required via -t, -cc, or -bcc - Message body required via -m, STDIN, or -o message-file=FILE

⭐ Common:

  • -t ADDRESS [ADDR ...] β€” to email address(es). who's getting this ✨
  • -u SUBJECT β€” message subject. make it cute
  • -m MESSAGE β€” message body. the actual words, the content, the paragraph πŸ’¬
  • -s SERVER[:PORT] β€” smtp mail relay, default is localhost:25. like, where the mail actually goes πŸ¦‹
  • -S [SENDMAIL_PATH] β€” use local sendmail utility (default: /usr/bin/sendmail) instead of network MTA. old school, but she works πŸ’€

🌈 Optional:

  • -a FILE [FILE ...] β€” file attachment(s). send the receipts, literally πŸ“Ž
  • -cc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] β€” cc email address(es). keeping them in the loop, polite queen
  • -bcc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] β€” bcc email address(es). secret little copy, no one has to know πŸ™ˆ

πŸ›Έ Paranormal:

  • -xu USERNAME β€” authentication user (for SMTP authentication)
  • -xp PASSWORD β€” authentication password (for SMTP authentication)
  • -l LOGFILE β€” log to the specified file πŸ““
  • -v β€” verbosity, use multiple times for greater effect. stack her up, she gets louder πŸ‘‘
  • -q β€” be quiet (no stdout output). silent but deadly, respect 🀫
  • -o NAME=VALUE β€” see extended help topic "misc" for details

πŸŽ€ Help:

  • --help TOPIC β€” The following extended help topics are available:
    • addressing β€” explain addressing and related options
    • message β€” explain message body input and related options
    • misc β€” explain -xu, -xp, and others
    • networking β€” explain -s, etc
    • output β€” explain logging and other output options

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? not her fault but like, tell her anyway:

Report bugs to <http://bugs.debian.org/sendemail>


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

sendemail was written by Brandon Zehm <caspian@dotconf.net> .

This manual page was written by Brandon Zehm and improved by Alejandro Garrido Mota <garridomota@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).


and that's the whole thing, bestie πŸ’œ this page is sendEmail from September 2010, section SendEmail(1) of the manual. go forth and send your little emails, you're literally so good at this 🫢✨