A year ago I tried a couple of different email senders because I wanted to simplify sending emails from the command line. There are a couple of tools for it, I tried (I don't remember exactly):
sendmailmailxmailssmtpuuencode- some mime scripts I found on the web using
mail, that handle attachments. echo body text | mutt -s subject -a /etc/resolv.conf [other files] -- test@example.com
The issue of attaching a file was difficult, due to
- encoding issues
- mime types for binary files
- attaching multiple files failed (no clear boundaries between them)
- send text files as attachment, not in email body
but eventually it worked with mutt (with the command above). I would have preferred a method without the invocation of a big program, but I was fine with it.
At some point I stopped using it, because I always had to enter the email addresses by hand and I never remember them.
In order further facilitate command line sending,
is there an easy way to enable tab-completion for email addresses?
I guess there is some manual work involved, because I didn't find anything on the web. Building an email index (exported cvs from gmail) seems easy, but what if John Jerry uses jj44@example.com as his email address? It would be necessary to complete
- Jo
<tab> - Je
<tab> - ex
<tab>and - jj
<tab>.
This must be somehow fed into the readline utility - I don't know if that's difficult, but I'm looking for an easy way, if there is one!
