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Created November 11, 2013 23:08
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A short mailx style script with smtp support
#!/usr/bin/env python
# smtpsend.py - mailx style tool with SMTP support
import smtplib
from optparse import OptionParser
import sys
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
def send_mail():
parser = OptionParser()
parser.add_option("-t", help="to", action="store", dest="to")
parser.add_option("-f", help="from", action="store", dest="fromad")
parser.add_option("-s", help="subject", action="store", dest="subject")
parser.add_option("-x", help="SMTP server", action="store", dest="server",
default="localhost")
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
msg = MIMEText(sys.stdin.read())
msg['Subject'] = options.subject
msg['From'] = options.fromad
msg['To'] = options.to
s = smtplib.SMTP(options.server)
s.sendmail(options.fromad, [options.to], msg.as_string())
s.quit()
if __name__ == '__main__':
send_mail()
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