Radio Toolbelt (Project 'Hephaestus') - email.exe

Email Tool

Provides simple functionality for sending email via the command-line.

Configure

Before email.exe can actually send an email, it will be necessary to provide the appropriate values in the email.ini configuration file for your particular email server/host and account information.

To do so, you can create a email.ini file in the same folder as email.exe.

The email.ini file should look similar the following:

[options]

verbose=True

[from]

name=(name) email=(email)

[server]

host=(host) user=(user)
pass=(pass)
port=(port)
ssl=True

options

• verbose - By default (at the time of this writing), the verbose value is set to True; which activates the option to provide more details of what is going on during the overall process. This can be disabled in order to reduce the associated noise.

from

• name - This would be typically be set to first and last name of the associated "person" sending the email.
• email - This is the email address that will be shown to the recipient of the email.

server

• host - This is the email server for the email account that will be utilized to send the email through (ie. smtp.gmail.com).
• user - The user account name for the email account that will be used to send the email (typically an email address).
• pass - The password for the account.
• port - The port number that the server will use to communicate (ie. 587).
• ssl - Most modern email servers require that the communication with the server occur over a secure connect (SSL), thus the default of True; older servers may need to disable SSL (False).

Commands

send

• --to - The to: address. Can be formatted as a standard email address or an outlook-style email address similar to "First Last <account@server.com>".
• --cc - The cc: address (optional).
• --bcc - The bcc: address (optional).
• --subject - The summary of the message.
• --body - The actual content of the message.
• --html - Whether or not the body is HTML formatted (optional).

Please note that any value (to, cc, bcc, subject, body) that has a value containing one or more spaces will need to be quoted.

Additional Information

Toolbelt List
Release Notes
End User License Agreement