sending email from command line using hotmail

[Robert Heller]

I take it you have a script that wants to send an E-Mail.

The "easiest" option is to use the /usr/sbin/sendmail  program that comes with 
most MTAs and install a MTA set up with a "smart host".  I know that Sendmail 
and Postfix support that. I don't know about other MTAs (eg exim, etc.). The 
smart host set up has your local (eg home "server") behaving like E-Mail 
"client" (ala like Thunderbird) and connecting to your E-Mail hosting service 
(eg Hotmail) using the mail submission port, complete with your authorization 
creds.  

Otherwise you are going to have to "re-invent" the wheel: roll your own 
"client" program.  There are mail-sending *libraries* for various programming 
environments (eg Perl, Python, Tcl, etc.).  I don't think there is a CLI tool 
other then the /usr/sbin/sendmail program I mentioned above, which is specific 
to the MTA.

At Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:07:32 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Is there some simple way to send emails from the command line without sendmail?
> I was using neomutt but can't get it to work with hotmail any more and gave
> up on the oauth2 stuff. Thunderbird words but I can't find a headless
> mode to get to work. I can use the marionette or debug port as I do in other
> cases with chrome but can't find any documentation although I could connect
> with wscat I can't do anything.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
>  Mike Marchywka 
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