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On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 07:01:36 PM Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> First up, I'm not an email admin or anything as snazzy so I'm not fully |
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> buzzword compliant. |
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> What I'm after is a tiny app that will, when called from the prompt, |
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> send an email to any address. I have several apps that take a long time |
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> to run, think Finite Elemental Analysis and Computational Fluid |
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> Dynamics, and I want something that can send me an email upon success or |
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> failure. I can wrap everything up in a script, it's the actual email |
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> sending that I'm looking for advice on. |
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> Off the top of my head I'm looking for something that is small, think |
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> the sort of thing that someone would write in Python to show off to |
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> their work colleagues and is 79 lines in size. This is going to be |
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> running on a Gentoo machine so Python is there and if I have to add |
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> another small Python package that's fine. |
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> In turn the recipient address, the mail server, which is my ISP's, etc |
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> along with a text file for the message can be either command line |
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> variables or in a simple config file which is written on the fly by the |
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> original script that ran everything. |
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> Does anyone know of such a little beasty or is this the reason I've |
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> been looking for to learn Python? |
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> Thoughts greatly appreciated, |
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> Andrew |
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Try: |
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* mail-client/mailx |
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Available versions: 8.1.2.20050715-r6 ~8.1.2.20050715-r7 |
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Homepage: http://www.debian.org/ |
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Description: The /bin/mail program, which is used to send mail |
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via shell scripts |
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(Or any of the other ones in virtual/mailx) |
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Joost |
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