email

README

Email

Email is a command line program that can send attachments, and stdin as the body of an email. It's most useful as a way of emailing yourself files.

Install

    go get github.com/nwjlyons/email
    cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/nwjlyons/email
    go build
    go install

Setup

touch ~/.config/email/config.json

Copy the JSON below and update values accordingly.

{
    "mailbox": "youremail@gmail.com",
    "from": "youremail@gmail.com",
    "host": "smtp.gmail.com",
    "port": "587",
    "password": "",
    "to": [
        "youremail@gmail.com"
    ],
    "subject": ""
}

Usage

Body

Body from command line flag

email -b "body"

or from a pipe

echo "body" | email

or from stdin

email < file.txt

Attachments

email attachment.pdf attachment.jpg

Recipients

Override recipients from settings file. Accepts a comma separated list.

email -t "one@example.com" -b "body"

multiple recipients

email -t "one@example.com,two@example.com" -b "body"

Subject

Override subject from settings file

email -s "subject" -b "body"

All at once

email -t "mum@example.com" -s "Some photos from the weekend" dinner.jpg tokyo-skyline.jpg

Tests

To run tests

go test

These tests will actually send an email using the settings in your config file. To avoid this set EMAIL_SEND enviroment variable to 0.

EMAIL_SEND=0 go test