email command alternative: a command line SMTP client

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 12:13 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> There is on Fedora Repository a command like this?
> 
> http://www.cleancode.org/projects/email
> 
> > Email boasts a lot of other qualities as well.
> >       * Email supports SMTP Authentication.
> >       * Email makes it possible to send to multiple recipients and
> >         also CC and BCC multiple recipients.
> >       * You can use an address book that is in an easy to format
> >         method.
> >       * You are also able to send attachments using a swift flick on
> >         the command line to specifying multiple files.
> >       * Personalized signature file with dynamic options. 
> > 
> > Email makes it simple to implement in cron jobs. 

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

I've used this occasionally and it seems to work well. They also offer
an rpm. I haven't tried installing it in Fedora but it's just a Perl
script so I wouldn't anticipate problems on that score. However I don't
see it in any of the usual repos.

poc