On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Sune Ahlgren wrote:

> I've been looking all over for a Linux/UNIX command line example where an
> existing gmail account is used for sending an email to wherever. My own
> attempts keep failing.

A user named 'mwnn' popped in to IRC[*] the other day with exactly this
problem and he got successful with something like this:

   curl
     --ssl
     --mail-from "<from-email-id_at_gmail.com>"
     --mail-rcpt "<to-email-id_at_gmail.com>"
     --verbose
     --url smtp://smtp.gmail.com
     -u from-email-id
     -T mailfile

... where 'mailfile' is a file that contains all the necessary headers
(Subject:, To:, From:, Date: etc) as well as the actual (pre-formatted) mail
body.

(I wrote all options on separate lines in this mail for clarity, you better
put them all on the same line.)

[*] = there are always people in the #curl channel on freenode these days!

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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