[Alpine-info] automated sending

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Eduardo Chappa wrote:


> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Mike Miller wrote:

>

> :) Is it possible to send text using Alpine but without having the alpine

> :) interface pop up?  This brings up Alpine:

> :)

> :) echo "this is a test" | alpine person at wherever.com

>

> If for any reason you must use Alpine to do this (other tools do this 

> natively), then the answer is no, unless you apply a patch that you can 

> find in my web page.



Something like "mail" or "mailx" would do it, I guess, but only if 
configured to use the correct SMTP server (maybe ~/.mailrc does that?). 
I'm using a GNU/Linux box with Alpine configured to use gmail's SMTP 
server.

I'm also not sure of how "mail" or "mailx" handles attachments, but Alpine 
has a command-line argument for that, and other cool command-line 
arguments for dealing with lists of files.

Are there other tools that do these things (handling attachments) 
natively?

Mike