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NailNail is a lightweight mail client for sending and receiving e-mail messages. Please note that around 2007 the nail changed it's name to Heirloom mailx. The Sourceforge says that: Reading messages.To read mail (imap, imaps, pop3, pop3s), invoke: nail -f pop3://mylogin@server.myisp.example nail -f imaps://mylogin@server.myisp.example However, fetchmail/procmail would do better job for automated e-mail receiving. This is how this chain can co-work: Mail Transport Agent (fetchmail) -> Mail Delivery Agent (procmail) -> Mail User Agent (nail?) http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=HOWTO-Setup+mutt%2Bprocmail%2Bfetchmail%2Bgnupg(approve sites) Sending mail.When sending, nail can pass the message to sendmail for further delivery (this option is not compiled in OpenSlug-2.6 and earlier) or use SMTP protocol to contact directly the recipient's mail server. I made a .mailrc file in home directory (every user wishing to use nail has to create his/her own .mailrc configuration file) containing just two lines: set smtp=smtp-server.my.isp.com set from=user@my.isp.com After that I can send automated messages from the command line or via script. > some_script.sh | nail -s "Script output" myemail@myisp.com See also:http://nail.sourceforge.net/man/nail.1.html
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Last edited by Darek Sliwa.
Based on work by Darek Sliwa, dB, willpost, and paulhar. Originally by dyoung. Page last modified on June 21, 2008, at 02:05 PM
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