gmailx

Send email easily on the command line without running a server

Installation

[sudo] npm install -g gmailx

Usage

This tool mimics the behavior of mailx but doesn't require any mail pickup programming running on the current host as it connects (by default) to Google's free anonymous SMTP server.

NOTE: by default, this can only send to gmail accounts!

$ cat message.txt
To: [email protected]
Subject: hello there!

This is a test!
$ cat message.txt | gmailx -t
message sent: 250 2.0.0 OK 1436563766 e109si12320482qgf.118 - gsmtp

If you specify a non-gmail address you will see

$ cat message.txt | gmailx -t
Can't send mail - all recipients were rejected
$ echo $?
1

You can alternatively construct everything on the command line, ie.

gmailx -a foo.pdf -S 'your document' [email protected] [email protected] <<-EOF
Attached is your pdf
EOF

And, optionally, specify an alternate server or authorization to use

$ cat config.json
{
  "service": "gmail",
  "auth": {
    "user": "[email protected]",
    "pass": "password"
  }
}
$ echo hi | gmailx -C config.json -s 'subject' [email protected]

See nodemailer for what can be specified in the config file

CLI Options

$ gmailx -h
Usage: gmailx [-c cc] [-b bcc] [-a attachment/file] to ...

Send email easily on the command line without running a server

options
  -a, --attachment <path>  filename to send as an attachment
  -b, --bcc <addr>         address to bcc to
  -c, --cc <addr>          address to cc to
  -C, --config <config>    JSON file to be passed to nodemailer.createTransport
  -d, --debug              turn on debugging information
  -h, --help               print this message and exit
  -r, --from <addr>        address to email from
  -s, --subject <line>     subject line to use
  -S, --header <foo=bar>   a raw header to specify
  -t, --raw-mode           specify To:, From:, Reply-To:, etc. over stdin
  -u, --updates            check for available updates
  -v, --version            print the version number and exit

License

MIT License