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Send SMTP email using cURL
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curl-smtp-email.sh
curl --connect-timeout 15 -v --insecure "smtp://smtp.example.com:25" -u "username:password"
\ --mail-from "sender@example.com" --mail-rcpt "destination@example.com"
\ -T email-contents.txt --ssl
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email-contens.txt
From: "Sender Name" <sender@example.com>
To: "Destination Email" <destination@example.com>
Subject: Sending Using Curl
Hello,
I'm sending this mail with curl.
Bye!
@mstreicher
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Sorry but this dosen't work for me. i got this output:

%Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying 65.55.163.152...

  • Connected to smtp.live.com (65.55.163.152) port 25 (#0)
    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:58 --:--:-- 0* Operation timed out after 0 milliseconds with 0 out of 0 bytes received
  • Closing connection 0
    curl: (28) Operation timed out after 0 milliseconds with 0 out of 0 bytes received

can you help me?

@dimeglio
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For me it seems to be working but at the very end I get the error

curl: (56) Failure when receiving data from the peer

and no message is sent (or received?)

@M0H4MM33D
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need open port ?

@eggypandiangan
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How to attach file (like sss.pdf) using curl send email?

@alecvinent
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You also can try a local server with Python:

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025

@oalimerko
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is there any way how to send emails with high priority?

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