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Not only is email very useful for communication between friends and families and sending messages with attachments such as reports, photos, documents, presentations, video clips and music files, it’s also useful for notification purposes. For example, a website monitoring service such as Pingdom has alerts where you’ll be notified through different methods such as email, SMS, twitter or in-app when your server is down. Third party backup software also normally has at least an email notification feature where you can set it up to automatically email you when the backup process has completed or failed.

If you are writing a batch file and want to send an automated email when the batch has completed running or if you’re faced with a third party software that does not even support email notification, then the simple solution is to use a command line email sending tool for Windows. Here we have 7 ways to look at.

An example command line for sending an email using Gmail is given for every utility mentioned below. You’ll need to change the following information in the command line option:

sender@gmail.com = Replace it with your full Gmail address
recipient@email.com = Replace it with the email address that will receive the message
YourGmailPassword = Replace it with your Gmail password
subject = The subject of the email. Make sure it is enclosed with double quotes if there are spaces. For example, “This is a long subject“
body = The message of the email. Should also enclose with double quotes if there are spaces

1. SwithMail

Out of all the command line email sending tools, we’d consider SwithMail as one of the best in its class, if not the best. Instead of the need to write really long command line options to silently send an email where you might make mistakes and need a few tries to get it right, configuring SwithMail is quite foolproof thanks to the easy to use settings configuration GUI. You even test the email settings to make sure that it is able to successfully send an email.

Other than the standard options such as attachments, CC, BCC that you’d normally find when sending an email, SwithMail supports returning error codes, global variables and wildcard attachments which is very useful to automatically send log files with dated filenames. Below is a working example of SwithMail command line options to send an email using Gmail account.

SwithMail.exe /s /from sender@gmail.com /pass YourGmailPassword /server smtp.gmail.com /p 587 /SSL /to recipient@email.com /sub subject /b message

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2. CMail

If you need to use a command line email sending tool that supports proxy, CMail would be your choice as it’s the only one that can support socks and HTTPS based proxy. Other interesting features that can be found in CMail are sending the whole directory content based on wildcard attachment and delivery status notification.

The full working command line to send an email using Gmail is as follows:

CMail.exe -secureport -host:sender@gmail.com:YourGmailPassword@smtp.gmail.com:465 -from:sender@gmail.com -to:recipient@email.com -subject:subject -body:message

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3. SendSMTP

Running SendSMTP will bring up an interactive graphical user interface to send emails but at the same time it also supports command line instructions to silently send email with just one line of commands. Although an advanced user would have no problems with the command line arguments, a GUI will greatly help a basic computer user in creating a working config file.

Some notable features found in SendSMTP are the ability to save the password as encrypted using 128-bit Rijndael (AES) rather than saving the password as clear text, enable log file to save the activity of the SendSMTP program, and can return codes to report if the send email is successful (0), failed (1), or cannot find settings (2). The full command line for SendSMTP to send email using Gmail is as follow.

SendSMTP.exe /nos /host smtp.gmail.com /port 587 /auth 2 /userid sender@gmail.com /pass YourGmailPassword /from sender@gmail.com /to recipient@email.com /subject subject /body message

However, if you’ve saved the settings as default from the GUI which will create a SendSMTP.ini file at the same location as the program, a much shorter command line can be used to send an email.

SendSMTP /s SendSMTP.ini

Do note that there are 2 versions available on the download page. You will need the newer version with the bigger file size to support sending email using Gmail because the old version does not support SASL authentication.

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4. mailsend

Comparing with the utilities mentioned above, mailsend is a simpler command line tool to send email using SMTP. It doesn’t have fancy features such as loading config from an external file, password encryption, GUI, error codes and etc. However, an interesting feature found in mailsend that is not available on other command line email sending tool is the ability to show SMTP server information by using the -info option.

mailsend is available for both Windows and Linux operating system. Below is the example command line for mailsend to send an email using Gmail.

mailsend1.17b15.exe -t recipient@email.com -f sender@gmail.com -ssl -port 465 -auth -smtp smtp.gmail.com -sub subject -M message -user sender@gmail.com -pass YourGmailPassword

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5. Send-It-Quiet

Send-It-Quiet is the smallest command line SMTP mailer utility that weighs only 14KB in size and this is made possible with .NET Framework. This would also mean that you need to have .NET Framework 3.5 installed to run Send-It-Quiet. Send-It-Quiet only comes with very basic parameters that are enough to send an email. Possibly the only extra features found in Send-It-Quiet are the return value of ERRORLEVEL and also the flexibility of manually adding the parameters to registry.

The command line to send an email using Send-It-Quite with a Gmail account is:

senditquiet.exe -s smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -u sender@gmail.com -protocol ssl -p YourGmailPassword -f sender@gmail.com -t recipient@email.com -subject subject -body message

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6. SendEmail

SendEmail is written in Perl but there is no need to install Perl in Windows for this command line mailer utility to work. SendEmail was last updated in 2009, but the last version has TLS support which means it can send email using Gmail SMTP. In terms of features, it is quite similar to Send-It-Quiet which only supports the standard email sending options such as to, from, subject, body, attachment, etc. SendEmail is available for both Windows and Linux operating systems.

Here is an example of the command line options that can send email using Gmail SMTP.

sendEmail.exe -o tls=yes -f sender@gmail.com -t recipient@email.com -s smtp.gmail.com:587 -xu sender@gmail.com -xp YourGmailPassword -u subject -m message

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7. PowerShell

PowerShell is included in Windows operating systems since Windows 7 which means you can actually use a powershell script to send an email through Gmail SMTP without any of the command line tools mentioned above.

The sample script that can be downloaded at the link below is a very basic one that is meant to only send an email without attachment support. Simply download the ps1 script, open it with Notepad or Windows PowerShell ISE and change the credentials located at line number 8. The command line to run the powershell script is as follows. Make sure you update the path to the .ps1 file.

Powershell.exe -executionpolicy remotesigned -File C:UsersRaymondsendemail.ps1

Download PowerShell Script to SendEmail

The popular Blat is not included in the list because it does not support SSL which means it cannot send email using Gmail SMTP. Bmail (last updated in 2004), cmdsendmail which is a part of CommandLine Tools, and XmlSendmail are also example of command line send mail utility that doesn’t support SSL.

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Can anyone help me out, we need to send mail through command line from Window server. We cannot use Blat as per security issue and neither do we want to install Exchange resource kit. We have our own Mail exchange server we can make use of it.

May be if any batch which could be run to access our SMTP mail server.

Thanks in advance.

asked Mar 1, 2011 at 11:38

Ravi VanapalliRavi Vanapalli

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Assuming you don’t want to install any SMTP client whatsoever, and just want to use windows and perhaps batch files, you could use Telnet to connect to port 25 of your smtp server and send the commands manually.
Here is an example of how to do this.
Anyway, I personally would prefer to install some command line SMTP client such as Blat or Bmail, instead of going into the hassle of directly interacting with SMTP.

answered Mar 1, 2011 at 12:09

a very nice solution I found generically good if no authentication is involved and no programs can/should be installed or can be assumed to exist is the following, which should work on Ubuntu and other Linux platforms alike (you can put everything in one line using the ; command delimiter and removing the chars in the echo quoted string):

set sender="<sender@example.com>"
set recipient="<recipient@example.com>"
set subj="testsubj"
set body="testbody"
set srv="mysmtpsrv.com"
set port="25"
set crlf="x0Dx0A"

echo "EHLO man${crlf}
MAIL FROM: ${sender}${crlf}
RCPT TO: ${recipient}${crlf}
data${crlf}
Subject: ${subj}${crlf}${crlf}
${body}
${crlf}.${crlf}"
|
nc -Ci 1 ${srv} ${port}

(Using like this make sure you are saving the file in Unix style (only a x0A character will be added after the echo "... backslashes).
Otherwise just remove the backslashes and the newline which puts everything on a line and makes it work, but less visually structured.)

answered Dec 13, 2013 at 21:50

Andreas CovidiotAndreas Covidiot

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HowToGeek demonstrates a Windows PowerShell script that works very well at How To Send Email From the Command Line in Windows Without Extra Software

Here is the method:
First you’re defining the variables:

$EmailFrom = “yourMail@gmail.com”
$EmailTo = “theRecipient’sAddress@someServer.com”
$Subject = “your subject”
$Body = “some text”
$SMTPServer = “smtp.gmail.com”
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)
$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential(“yourGmailUsername”, “password”);

Then, you’re using this command to send the mail:

$SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)

You’ll need a valid Gmail account in order to authenticate as a Gmail user.

answered Dec 7, 2014 at 5:18

Oz EdriOz Edri

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To send mail from command line in windows:-
Save this in a text file and name that file something like sendmail.ps1

$EmailFrom = "from@gmail.com"

$EmailTo = "to@domain.com"

$Subject = "The subject of your email"

$Body = "What do you want your email to say"

$SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com"

$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)

$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true

$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("gmail_username", "password");

$SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)

-Don’t forget to put the valid email address and password.

Now open CMD and write this command

Powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -File C:sendmail.ps1

Voila! mail sent!!

answered Nov 27, 2015 at 11:05

GorvGoylGorvGoyl

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This is an example to send mail from your Gmail address, for other servers you need to change the -smtp and -port

$securepass = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $yourpassword -A -F

$credential=new-object PSCredential $yourusername,$securepass

send-mailmessage -from «$yourusername@gmail.com» -to $recipient -subject «subject» -body «message» -smtpserver smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -usessl -credential $credential -encoding utf8

Here is the script that can send mail from your Gmail:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/PC-Utilities-Downloader-355e5bfe

answered Mar 20, 2016 at 7:25

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SendItQuiet is a software for Windows that lets you send email from command line. It can also let you attach files and supports SSL connection. This software can be best to use for sending bulk emails from command line via a batch file. This software is capable of sending files as an attachment and supports sending emails to multiple recipients which can be supplied to the software as a parameter.

You would not require any kind of technical knowledge to use this tool to send email from command line. This software runs without any installation and can be used directly from the folder it is downloaded to. Read on to find out how to use this software.

Now, if you thought that it would be too difficult for you to understand this software then let me tell you that it is very easy to use this software.

Hope you know how to open up the command prompt but just so if you don’t know, press Windows Key (Key with Windows Logo) + R. The “Run” box will pop up. Once we get the Run Box, type in “cmd” and click on “OK”. There we go. We would have the command prompt.

SendItQuiet does not have a graphical interface. This means that we don’t have buttons and menus to click on and to choose from. It does not have text boxes where you can type in the email address. You might ask “How would we work with it?”. You would use the command prompt (Black Screen that we just pulled up) to provide the required information to the software. To invoke the software, we simply type the name of the software. Then we follow that with a few additional parameters that specify email address, server address, actual message, etc.

Ex: senditquiet -s smtp.gmail.com

Here, -s is used to specify that we’re going to provide the server’s address and “smtp.gmail.com” is the actual information we pass on to the software.

Different Parameters to Use with SendItQuiet:

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) server

The SMTP server is the server where we are going to connect to and the switch we use to specify this is “-s”. Example: –s smtp.gmail.com. We have used Google’s SMTP server here for testing purposes. You can easily get the SMTP information from your Email provider on their website.

Protocol

Protocol is the way we connect with the server. We are going to use SSL (Secure Socket Layer), that means the information going out of the computer will be encrypted. Gmail uses this every time you want to send an email to someone. This is usually taken care of and happens in the background while your email client talks to the server.

We will specify it like this: “–protocol ssl”

Username and Password

Of course we would need the username and password to send the information to the Google’s SMTP and get our account verified. This is simple.

Specify –u for username, followed with actual usernam and –p for password., followed by actual password. Example: –u yourusername –p password

From and To Address

You need to type in the From Address that would show up on the receiver’s end. You would also need the receiver’s email address so that goes into the To Address.

Parameters for this: –t for To address and –f for from address.

Example: –f myemailaddress@gmail.com –t receiveremailaddress@yahoo.com

To send to multiple address: –t address1@gmail.com; address2@gmail.com; address3@yahoo.com

Subject and Body

What should go in there? Well, whatever you wish to put in there. You can specify the body and the subject with the “-subject” and “-body” parameters. Example: –subject “Test Mail” –body “This is a test mail from Ilovefreesoftware.com”

Ports

You would require to specify the port number in case if you’re Email service provider needs them desperately. For, Gmail the port is taken care by the software we are going to use. However, you should specify the port according to the specifications of the Email Service Provider.

Files

An email client without a feature to send files as an attachment would be absolutely incomplete. This software would let you do that. The parameter for this is: –files. Example: –files file1.txt, document.pdf, document.xls

To send an email from command line, the complete command would look like this:

senditquiet -s smtp.gmail.com -protocol ssl -u myusername -p password -f myemail@gmail.com -t recipientsemail@yahoo.com -subject "Test Mail" -body "This is a test mail." -files file1.doc

This is how it would look for real. I have used my Gmail account here. You can see the file – file1.txt sent with our software to send email from command line.

How to use this software in a batch file?

To create a batch file, open up the Window’s Notepad or any of you’re favorite text editor. Once we’re in there, type in the command we want to go in there, one command per line. We can use SendItQuiet with more than one recipient and parameters with one command per line. Here is how we do it.

We got for far, now it’s just the “File Saving” part left. We have to save this file as a .bat file. We choose the Save option from the File Menu and type in the name of the file and add .bat next to that as an extension. Now in the file type, we would choose All Files.

Conclusion

SendItQuiet quickly lets you send email from command line. Because, it can also send files as an attachment, it can be used while sending bulk emails. It can completely automate the task of manual login and process of authentication. You can schedule emails and set it for a specific time to be sent out. It could be an hourly update of a file that you want to send as an email. The possibilities are many and this is just the beginning. I liked this tool and hope you’ll find it useful too.

Get SendItQuiet here for free

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You can modify this how-to and make it work for you — assuming you are going to be repeating this process.

http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/382-how-to-automatically-email-reports

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Being an old fart, I used telnet from the command line for e-mail testing, assuming the appropriate ports are open. from the DOS box (Command Prompt for the young ‘uns) it’s;

1. Telnet mail.domain.com 25 (obviously replace mail.domain.com with whichever mail server you want to use.)

2. helo your domain name

3. mail from:your email address

4. rctp to:destination address

5. data

6. Type your message

7. . (type a period and hit enter)

At that point, your email message should be queued and sent. To make it a little clearer, here’s an example sending from fred.com to barney.com. Hit «enter after each line.

1. telnet mail.barney.com 25

2. helo fred.com

3. mail from:fred@fred.com

4. rcpt to:brubble@barney.com

5. data Hello Barney. Bowling tonight?

6. .

Hope that makes sense.

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You can always use the old standby telnet (you’ll probably need to enable telnet in windows features (control panel>>>programs>>>turn windows features on or off, then check the box next to telnet client):

This is a good «how to» using an smtp server:

http:/ Opens a new window/www.wikihow.com/Send-Email-Using-Telnet Opens a new window

-Rob

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+1 Shane

Old school or not, I’ve used this more then once to troubleshoot mail servers.

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Blat.

IMHO, the absolute best command-line mailer for the windows platform. hands down.

It’s supposed to (I think) support mapi, but I’ve always stuck with SMTP. If you don’t have a mail server to point to, you can always install the Windows SMTP service (in there with IIS) and configure it to only accept/relay mail for 127.0.0.1

and it has more logging/debugging options than you’ll likely ever need.

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I always use «telent <host> 25» like some of the other folks here for troubleshooting.

Just a side note about telnet and Windows7, in case you weren’t aware, it’s not installed by default. You have to go into Programs and Features and enable it via the «Turn Windows features on or off» dialog.

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http://www.smtpinfo.com/ Opens a new window — the free version should serve most purposes

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I also use Blat, mainly for emailing log files and results of batch scripts. Does the job nicely.

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+1 for telnet, as described by Shane,

best way to troubleshoot, got to be very careful with your typing, as you cannot backspace out errors, but very useful info returned to spot if something isn’t getting through

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Powershell with one line

send-mailmessage -from «fromname <me@address.com>» -to «toname <me@address.com>» -subject «Subject» -smtp <mailserver> -body «body»

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+1 Shane

You didn’t mention if you have a local mail server or hosting service. Your ISP may block port 25. If it’s a home pc port 25 is blocked by your ISP.

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i use blat only because it was what i learned first, but really do like it and have gotten very comfortable scripting messages and setting them up as scheduled tasks.

Still think that repeating a message to oneself in scheduled tasks every minute would make a great practical joke.

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I’ve used Blat in the past, but on Windows boxes this is what I mostly use now. Save as a PS1 file and modify it to suit your environment.

# Send mail through Gmail account
$EmailFrom = «notifications@somedomain.com»
$EmailTo = «me@mydomain.com»
$Subject = «Notification from Whomever»
$Body = «this is a notification from Whatever Notifications..»
$SMTPServer = «smtp.gmail.com»
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)
$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential(«username», «password»);
$SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)

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Here’s another option. It’s called SendEmail. No install required. Handles authentication, if needed.

http:/ Opens a new window/caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail Opens a new window

I use this to send e-mail through a scheduled task to confirm execution.

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If moving to a new system or ISP with blat, make sure you are not trying to send pop3 smtp through an ssl account , unconfigured port, or ISP unsupported port.

Even in debug mode, blat will grind to a halt with no diagnostics, only a generic windows error:

«A Win32 command line eMail tool has stopped working»

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to enable telnet from cmd

sc config tlntsvr start= auto

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If you already have powershell installed, you can just call up the SmtpClient from System.Net and it’ll send whatever email you want. There’s a guide that explains sending email via the windows command line Opens a new window using powershell you can check out.

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This WORKS REALLY GREAT I spent hours to sent email from other clients with no luck ( not so good in emails:-) ). Here you got everything even with working examples. Thank you and have a nice day

Google MailSend. No need to mess with the Powershell. http://muquit.com/muquit/software/mailsend/mailsend.html Opens a new window

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Sendmail utility in Windows is working fine. But I am unable to attach a file.. Any reason..?

I have given the command -attach=filename (with full path)

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Hey am tried this way but getting erro msg regarding argument

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hari.p.rai wrote:

Hey am tried this way but getting erro msg regarding argument

Since there were multiple methods to do this presented in this thread you will need to provide more details.

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I tried following list of command:

$EmailFrom = «notifications@somedomain.com»
$EmailTo = «me@mydomain.com»
$Subject = «Notification from Whomever»
$Body = «this is a notification from Whatever Notifications..»
$SMTPServer = «smtp.gmail.com»
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)
$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential(«username», «password»);
$SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)

through gmail i was to send but when i use my office id i am getting error regarding argument.

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hari.p.rai wrote:

I tried following list of command:

$EmailFrom = «notifications@somedomain.com»
$EmailTo = «me@mydomain.com»
$Subject = «Notification from Whomever»
$Body = «this is a notification from Whatever Notifications..»
$SMTPServer = «smtp.gmail.com»
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)
$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential(«username», «password»);
$SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)

through gmail i was to send but when i use my office id i am getting error regarding argument.

you are using BLAT and it works when you send via google but not using your office exchange? Probably something wrong with 1 or more params with your office settings — or SMTP isn’t allowed from your terminal.

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Hi

There is a free utility called CommandLine Mail sender

Here Opens a new window

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Google reads, stores and shares your mail with NSA. You may say there’s nothing to hide, but if the rules change, they can go back to the archives — apparently they are keeping a lot of this stuff, including encrypted stuff with an eye toward eventually being able to brute force decryption.

Also you do not control the business policies of Google, its continuity,whether it is merged or acquired, nor whether and how it changes policies. If you embed it in systems and decide later you don’t want to use it, or are unable to continue using it, or must maintain something in order to continue using a modified API, you’re a bit out of luck.

Big, friendly, cool or not — I don’t entangle with other private parties without a contract and a proper business evaluation.

FWIW,

Greybeard who used Burroughs, IBM, Control Data, NCR, DEC, CompuServe, landlines, modems and a zillion other things that were likely to be part of the landscape forever. Yeah, right.

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There is a new and free command-line tool for sending emails called Mail Alert Simple Mailer:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mail-alert/ Opens a new window Opens a new window

Mail Alert can send emails using SMTP servers with SSL/TLS, so it is working with gmail and other free email providers. It can save mail password in encrypted form, thus it is much safer then other solutions.

I’m using this software on Windows Server 2008 R2 to send hardware alerts from Dell OMSA and is very reliable.

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If you want to send a mail from the command line you have to follow these simple steps, which are the same used by any ordinary mail client like Outlook. This means that you must send at least the following commands in the specified order:

EHLO
MAIL
RCPT
DATA
QUIT

To begin the transmission of our mail using the command line we first open a CMD on Windows (Start -> Run and type “cmd” without quotes and press Enter). In Linux or UNIX you just have to open a terminal window with the root user or any other. Now, in the command line we start by writing the following line which will open a connection on port 25 of the mail server with which you want to transfer the mail.

telnet <mail_server_IP> 25

For example:

telnet 192.168.0.10 25

We’ll get a line similar to this one:

220 hub.rskala.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959

You don’t have to care about the text in this line, but the numerical code 220 which means the mail server is ready to start a mail transfer with us.

Now type the EHLO command to identify yourself with the mail server:

EHLO <FQDN>

For example:

EHLO server.domain.com

We’ll get a line similar to this:

250-hub.rskala.com Hello [192.168.0.89]

250-TURN

250-SIZE

250-ETRN

250-PIPELINING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-8bitmime

250-BINARYMIME

250-CHUNKING

250-VRFY

250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN

250-X-EXPS=LOGIN

250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN

250-AUTH=LOGIN

250-X-LINK2STATE

250-XEXCH50

250 OK

Now we’re ready to start our mail transfer, so let’s begin by sending the MAIL FROM command which indicates what the sender’s mailbox is:

MAIL FROM:<sender_mailbox>

For example:

MAIL FROM:<john_doe@domain.com>

We’ll get a line similar to this:

250 2.1.0 john_doe@domain.com….Sender OK

Now we must indicate what the recipient mailboxes are, each on a single line. For this, we’ll send the RCPT TO command, one for each of the recipient mailboxes of our mail:

RCPT TO:<recipient1_mailbox>

RCPT TO:<recipient2_mailbox>

…

RCPT TO:<recipientn_mailbox>

For example:

RCPT TO:<user@rskala.com>

We’ll get a line similar to this:

250 2.1.5 user@rskala.com

After we’re finished sending our recipient list, is time to send the body content by sending the DATA command:

DATA

We’ll get a line similar to this:

354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>

Now we really begin writing our mail. The first lines you have to send are the headers, which are fields with information about the mail path and some that will be visible to the user like From, To, Cc, Subject, etc. So we begin by sending these headers like this:

From:’John Doe’<john_doe@domain.com>

To:’User’<user@rskala.com>

Subject: Hi rskala this is a test mail

You can send the From, To and Cc headers in at least three different formats. The fist includes just the name (From: user) but if the name contains a blank space you must place the whole name like ‘John Doe’. The second format includes placing just the mailbox like From:<john_doe@domain.com> and the third one is the combination of both which is the one used in our example. There are several headers you can place on this section but we are using only the most basic ones. If you need to send more headers you must place them in this section before proceeding with the body content.

Now, in order to separate the header section from the body content you must type a blank line:

[headers]

[blank line]

This is the body content and it will be visible to the user.

Regard!!

.

Consider the final syntax <ENTER>.<ENTER> which indicates the mail server the body content has ended and now the whole mail transfer operation should be considered completed. At this point the mail server will answer with a line similar to this:

250 2.6.0 <PQtt4VMW5ay00000001@hub.rskala.com> Queued mail for delivery

Now the operation has ended and we now have the choice to begin the transmission of a new mail if you start the sequence all over again with the MAIL command or finish the session by issuing the QUIT command.

QUIT

With this command we’ll get the following line and the session will be over.

221 2.0.0 hub.rskala.com Service closing transmission channel

It is possible to send any kind of mail with the steps explained here and you can use this in any automatic script, an autonomous system or simply by typing the commands one by one.

Finally here it is the whole SMTP conversation including all commands and replies shown before:

220 hub.rskala.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959

EHLO server.domain.com

250-hub.rskala.com Hello [192.168.0.89]

250-TURN

250-SIZE

250-ETRN

250-PIPELINING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-8bitmime

250-BINARYMIME

250-CHUNKING

250-VRFY

250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN

250-X-EXPS=LOGIN

250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN

250-AUTH=LOGIN

250-X-LINK2STATE

250-XEXCH50

250 OK

MAIL FROM:<john_doe@domain.com>

250 2.1.0 john_doe@domain.com….Sender OK

RCPT TO:<user@rsakala.com>

250 2.1.5 user@rskala.com

DATA

354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>

From:’John Doe'<john_doe@domain.com>

To:’User’<user@rskala.com>

Subject: Hi rskala this is a test mail

This is the body content and will be visible to the user

Regards!!

.

250 2.6.0 <pr7eIQZKt4jm00000002@rskala.com> Queued mail for delivery

QUIT

221 2.0.0 hub.rskala.com Service closing transmission channel

For more information about the rules to create, transmit and process an email you can check out our publication on The SMTP Protocol Fundamentals.

Remember to send us your questions and comments to our Twitter account: @redinskala where you’ll also find more information and security tips.

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I’ve got some backup jobs running weekly and would like to have the log files sent to me automatically via email so I don’t have to manually check them.

On a Windows system, is there a tool that I can use that will allow me to send an email via Gmail SMTP from a command prompt?

asked Dec 8, 2009 at 6:47

Matt HansonMatt Hanson

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Gmail can be used for sending mail by any mail program and from any network.

Some command-line mail products for Windows are:

SendEmail
mailsend
(I have no first-hand experience with these products.)

See also this article : How to use Gmail as your SMTP server.

answered Dec 8, 2009 at 7:00

harrymcharrymc

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Blat:

What is Blat?
Blat is a Win32 command line utility that sends eMail using SMTP or post to usenet using NNTP.

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answered Apr 19, 2011 at 23:17

HowToGeek demonstrates a Windows PowerShell script that works very well at How To Send Email From the Command Line in Windows Without Extra Software

Here is the method:
First you’re defining the variables:

$EmailFrom = “yourMail@gmail.com”
$EmailTo = “theRecipient’sAddress@someServer.com”
$Subject = “your subject”
$Body = “some text”
$SMTPServer = “smtp.gmail.com”
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 587)
$SMTPClient.EnableSsl = $true
$SMTPClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential(“yourGmailUsername”, “password”);

Then, you’re using this command to send the mail:

$SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)

You’ll need a valid Gmail account in order to authenticate as a Gmail user.

answered Dec 7, 2014 at 5:26

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Currently in powershell we can use Send-MailMessage cmdlet without using .NET:

$Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential(“yourGmailUsername”, “password”);
Send-MailMessage -From 'enterYourEmailHere ' -To 'enterRecipientMailHere' -Subject 'Email subject' -Body 'EnterBodyHere as HTML'  -Attachment 'Attachment path here' -SmtpServer 'smtp.gmail.com' -Port 587 -UseSSL -BodyAsHTML -Credential $Credentials

Send-MailMessage Documentation

answered Aug 18, 2020 at 1:55

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answered Aug 17, 2017 at 9:17

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What could be easier than starting a new message in Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express? All it takes is a click on the Create Mail button.

But what if you fancy starting a new message from a command prompt, possibly without the main window of Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express showing, or if you want to create messages programmatically from other applications?

Both can be accomplished with command line arguments. You can create a simple message, but you can also specify default recipients as well as a default subject and message text.

Create a Message in Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express from the Command Line

To create a new email message in Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express from the Windows command line:

For Windows Live Mail:
Type ‘«C:Program FilesWindows LiveMailwlmail» /mailurl:%‘.
For Windows Mail:
Type ‘«C:Program FilesWindows MailWinMail» /mailurl:%‘.
For Outlook Express:
Type ‘«C:Program FilesOutlook Expressmsimn» /mailurl:%‘.
Make sure you do include the inner (double) but leave out the outer (single) quotation marks.
Hit Enter.

To create a message with default To:, Cc:, Bcc:, Subject and message body fields:

Type ‘«C:Program FilesWindows LiveMailwlmail» /mailurl:%‘ (Windows Live Mail) ‘«C:Program FilesWindows MailWinMail» /mailurl:%‘ (Windows Mail) or ‘«C:Program FilesOutlook Expressmsimn» /mailurl:‘ (Outlook Express).
Use the mailto URL encoder to construct a mailto: URL containing the desired default values.
For a message sent To: «recipient@example.com» by default with a Subject: of «Hello» and a body of «Hi there», the URL would be «mailto:recipient@example.com?subject=Hello&body=Hi%20there«, for example.
Copy and paste the URL to the command line, appending it immediately after «mailurl:«.
Enter a quotation mark ‘»‘ between «mailto:» and the email address of the default recipient.
The full command line using the above example is, using Windows Live Mail, ‘«C:Program FilesWindows LiveMailwlmail» /mailurl:mailto:»recipient@example.com?subject=Hello&body=Hi%20there‘ (again including the inner but not including the outermost quotation marks).

You cannot attach files from the command line or have the message delivered automatically.

Thanks for letting us know!

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How To Send Email Locally Using Command Prompt

This article serves as a guide to test simple email functionality on your server if you are unable to access your SmarterMail interface.

Open Windows Command Prompt using Start > Command Prompt or via Run > CMD
Telnet to the mail server by typing telnet <domain> 25
Once connected, we must initiate the mail sending process queue. We start this with helo <domain>

The server will reply with 250 and a hello if successful.
Now we must set the sending mail address. Type mail from:<email address>
Now we set the to address. Type RCPT TO:<email address>
Type data to begin the email content.
First we set the subject by typing Subject:<Your Subject> Then press Enter twice.
Now type the message content of your email. When done, press Enter — Period Key — Enter to close the message.
Type Quit to exit telnet.
Verify your email has been received.

Article ID: 2313, Created: November 21, 2015 at 12:49 AM, Modified: November 21, 2015 at 8:13 PM

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Announcement (Feb-11-2019)

If you use mailsend, please try mailsend-go. Your feedback will be appreciated.

mailsend will still be maintained (critical security fixes) but no new features will be added.

Thanks!

mailsend v1.19

mailsend is a simple command line program to send mail via SMTP protocol. Long time ago, I needed to send a piece of alert mail from a program in a networked Windows machine, but could not find a simple program like this installed. So I wrote one. You might find it useful as well. The program does not use any config file and I plan to keep it that way. From version 1.17b1+, IPv6 is supported in all platforms. Suggestions, bug reports are always welcome. If you have any question, request or suggestion, please enter it in the Issues with appropriate label.

Download source/binary

To download source/binaries, please go to the releases page.

Bug fixes and stable features are merged from dev branch to master branch every now and then. Clone the repo if you want the latest code.

Supported Platforms

Microsoft Windows
Linux/Unix
Mac OS X

It should compile on any POSIX compliant system. Works on 64 bit systems.

Features

Few main features:

ESMTP Authentication
IPv6 transport
Attachments
Embed images in HTML
Send mail to a list of users

Versions

Latest stable version is 1.19

Released on May-17-2016. Please look at: ChangeLog.

Synopsis

 Version: @(#) mailsend v1.19

 Copyright: BSD. It is illegal to use this software for Spamming

 (Compiled with OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2f  28 Jan 2016)
 usage: mailsend [options]
 Where the options are:
  -copyright            - show copyright information
  -4                    - Force to use IPv4 address of SMTP server
  -6                    - Force to use IPv6 address of SMTP server
  -smtp hostname/IP*    - Hostname/IP address of the SMTP server
  -port SMTP port       - SMTP port
  -domain    domain     - domain name for SMTP HELO/EHLO
  -t    to,to..*        - email address/es of the recipient/s
  -cc   cc,cc..         - carbon copy address/es
  +cc                   - do not ask for Carbon Copy
  -ct   seconds         - Connect timeout. Default is 5 seconds
  -read-timeout seconds - Read timeout. Default is 5 seconds
  -bc   bcc,bcc..       - blind carbon copy address/es
  +bc                   - do not ask for Blind carbon copy
  +D                    - do not add Date header
  -f    address*        - email address of the sender
  -sub  subject         - subject
  -list_address file    - a file containing a list of email addresses
  -log file             - write log messages to this file
  -cs   character set   - for text/plain attachments (default is us-ascii)
  -separator character  - separator used with -attach. Default is comma (,)
                          If used must be specified before -attach
  -enc-type type        - encoding type. base64, 8bit, 7bit etc.
                          Default is base64. Special type is "none"
  -aname name           - name of the attachment. Default is filename
  -content-id id        - content-id in the attachment
  -mime-type type       - MIME type
  -dispostion val       - "attachment" or "inline". Default is "attachment"
  -attach file,mime_type,[i/a] (i=inline,a=attachment)
                        - attach this file as attachment or inline
  -show-attach          - show attachment in verbose mode, default is no
  -show-mime-types      - show the compiled in MIME types
  -M    "one line msg"  - attach this one line text message
  -content-type type    - Content type. Default: multipart/mixed
  -msg-body path        - Path of the file to include as body of mail
  -embed-image image    - Path of image to embed in HTML
  -H    "header"        - Add custom Header
  -name "Full Name"     - add name in the From header
  -v                    - verbose mode
  -V                    - show version info
  -w                    - wait for a CR after sending the mail
  -rt  email_address    - add Reply-To header
  -rrr email_address    - request read receipts to this address
  -rp                   - return-path address
  -ssl                  - SMTP over SSL
  -starttls             - use STARTTLS if the server supports it
  -auth                 - try CRAM-MD5,LOGIN,PLAIN in that order
  -auth-cram-md5        - use AUTH CRAM-MD5 authentication
  -auth-plain           - use AUTH PLAIN authentication
  -auth-login           - use AUTH LOGIN authentication
  -user username        - username for ESMTP authentication
  -pass password        - password for ESMTP authentication
  -example              - show examples
  -ehlo                 - force EHLO
  -info                 - show SMTP server information
  -help                 - shows this help
  -q                    - quiet

 The options with * must be specified
 Environment variables:
  SMTP_USER_PASS for plain text password (-pass)

The options with asterisk must be specified. Environment variable SMTP_USER_PASS can be used to set the SMTP authentication password instead of the option -pass

How to compile/install

Linux/Unix/Mac OS X

Specify the path of OpenSSL with —with-openssl. In most Linux systems, it is installed in /usr. If OpenSSL is installed in non-standard places, type ./configure —help for options.

   $ /bin/sh ./configure --with-openssl=/usr

Default installation location is /usr/local. If you want to change that:

   $ /bin/sh ./configure --with-openssl=/usr --prefix=/usr/local/mailsend
   $ make clean
   $ make
   # make install
   Or
   $ sudo make install
   Or
   $ make install DESTDIR=/foo

The name of the binary will be mailsend. If compiled with OpenSSL, the
support for STARTTLS and SMTP over SSL will be available.

Linux Debian package

Starting from mailsend v1.18, Debian package is no longer supplied. If you want to build the Debian package yourself, after compiling mailsend, type:

   $ ruby scripts/mk_debian_package.rb

To install the package, type:

   $ sudo dpkg -i mailsend_1.19-ubuntu_i386.deb

To uninstall, type:

Microsoft Windows

A compiled binary with SMTP authentication support for MS Windows is already supplied. However, if you need to modify something or want to compile it yourself, you will need freely available Visual Studio from Microsoft. For Visual Studio 2015 community edition, start Developer Command Prompt for VS2015.

OpenSSL is required, if you need to compile with SMTP authentication support. Look at INSTALL.32 that comes with OpenSSL on how to compile and install OpenSSL. mailsend’s Makefile.nmake expects it to be installed at c:openssl

To compile mailsend, open a command shell and type:

   c:> nmake -f Makefile.nmake clean
   c:> nmake -f Makefile.nmake

It compiles cleanly with cygwin as well. The name of the binary will be mailsend.exe

Known Issues

For text or html attachments, rn is not added at the end of lines. Some SMTP servers (e.g. qmail) does not like that. It will be fixed in some future release.
For non ascii characters, MIME headers are not converted as per RFC2047
In Windows, non ascii characters can not be entered in subject or with -M from
command line (Works fine in Linux and Mac). mailsend uses standard C
string functions and Windows versions do not know about multibyte input
from command line (Issue# 14). If anyone is familiar with it, you are welcome to implement the support, unfortunately I do not have time at this time.

FAQ

Examples

Please type: mailsend -example or look at examples

License

BSD

To display license, please type: mailsend -copyright

Copyright (C) 2001-2019  Muhammad Muquit (http://www.muquit.com/)

 o Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

 o Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

 o Neither the name of the author MUHAMMAD MUQUIT (http://www.muquit.com/)
nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written
permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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250-hub.rskala.com Hello [192.168.0.89]

250-TURN

250-SIZE

250-ETRN

250-PIPELINING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-8bitmime

250-BINARYMIME

250-CHUNKING

250-VRFY

250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN

250-X-EXPS=LOGIN

250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN

250-AUTH=LOGIN

250-X-LINK2STATE

250-XEXCH50

250 OK

RCPT TO:<recipient1_mailbox>

RCPT TO:<recipient2_mailbox>

…

RCPT TO:<recipientn_mailbox>

From:’John Doe’<john_doe@domain.com>

To:’User’<user@rskala.com>

Subject: Hi rskala this is a test mail

[headers]

[blank line]

This is the body content and it will be visible to the user.

Regard!!

.

220 hub.rskala.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959

EHLO server.domain.com

250-hub.rskala.com Hello [192.168.0.89]

250-TURN

250-SIZE

250-ETRN

250-PIPELINING

250-DSN

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-8bitmime

250-BINARYMIME

250-CHUNKING

250-VRFY

250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN

250-X-EXPS=LOGIN

250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN

250-AUTH=LOGIN

250-X-LINK2STATE

250-XEXCH50

250 OK

MAIL FROM:<john_doe@domain.com>

250 2.1.0 john_doe@domain.com….Sender OK

RCPT TO:<user@rsakala.com>

250 2.1.5 user@rskala.com

DATA

354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>

From:’John Doe'<john_doe@domain.com>

To:’User’<user@rskala.com>

Subject: Hi rskala this is a test mail

This is the body content and will be visible to the user

Regards!!

.

250 2.6.0 <pr7eIQZKt4jm00000002@rskala.com> Queued mail for delivery