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mal sends an email to one or more recipients, through information passed mal sends email to one or more recipients, through information passed
on its command line. Read COPYING for information on redistribution. on its command line. Read COPYING for information on redistribution.
## compilation ## compilation
Install ldc and curl, and run make. To install the binary systemwide, Install ldc and libcurl, and run `make`.
run make install after compiling. To install, run `make install` after compiling.
## usage ## documentation
Send an email from you@example.org to joe@example.org All documentation is provided in the man page. With mal installed, run
with the message body "hello!": `man mal`, or in this source tree run `man ./mal.1`. Usage examples are
in the **EXAMPLES** section near the end.
mal -m 'hello!' -t joe@example.org -P password123 you@example.org
Read the message body from a file instead:
mal -M mesgfile -t joe@example.org -P password123 you@example.org
Send the message to multiple recipients:
mal -M mesgfile -t joe@example.org -t jane@example.org -P password123 \
you@example.org
If SSL is not working properly, use an insecure connection with -k:
mal -k -m 'hello!' -t joe@example.org -P password123 \
you@example.org
To send a message from an address with a plus in it, manually specify
the username with -u:
mal -m 'hello!' -t joe@example.org -u you -P password123 \
you+malbot@example.org
CC john@example.org:
mal -m 'hello!' -t joe@example.org -H 'Cc: <john@example.org>' -P password123 \
you@example.org
Read a quick usage example:
mal
Man pages hopefully coming soon.