how Send Email in Linux via CLI

**ahmadmasoood** · 11-30-2010

i m using code for sending email through GMAIL SMTP as given below... can any one tell me that how i can send EMAIL through Centos 5 CLI mode....
in graphical mode we use webbrowser but in Command line how i can use this project....

<html>
<head>
<title>PHPMailer - SMTP (Gmail) advanced test</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
require_once('/var/www/PHPMailer_v5.1/class.phpmailer.php');
//include("class.smtp.php"); // optional, gets called from within class.phpmailer.php if not already loaded

$mail = new PHPMailer(true); // the true param means it will throw exceptions on errors, which we need to catch

$mail->IsSMTP(); // telling the class to use SMTP

try {
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // SMTP server
$mail->SMTPDebug = 2; // enables SMTP debug information (for testing)
$mail->SMTPAuth = true; // enable SMTP authentication
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl"; // sets the prefix to the servier
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com"; // sets GMAIL as the SMTP server
$mail->Port = 465; // set the SMTP port for the GMAIL server
$mail->Username = "john@gmail.com"; // GMAIL username
$mail->Password = "password"; // GMAIL password

//$mail->AddReplyTo('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');
//$mail->AddAddress('user1@gmail.com', 'user1'); //Set Send To Address
$mail->AddAddress('receiveremail@gmail.com', 'user2'); //Set Send To Address

$mail->SetFrom('senderemail@gmail.com', 'senderemail Name'); // Set Send From Address
//$mail->AddReplyTo('name@yourdomain.com', 'First Last');

$mail->Subject = 'Email with Attachment with PHP is done';
$mail->AltBody = 'To view the message, please use an HTML compatible email viewer!'; // optional - MsgHTML will create an alternate automatically
$mail->MsgHTML(file_get_contents('contents.html'));

$mail->AddAttachment('/images/asdf.pdf'); // attachment
$mail->AddAttachment('/images/asd.wav'); // attachment

$mail->Send();
echo "Message Sent OK</p>\n";

} catch (phpmailerException $e) {
echo $e->errorMessage(); //Pretty error messages from PHPMailer
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage(); //Boring error messages from anything else!
}
?>

</body>
</html>

**sarmed** · 12-01-2010

dunno whether it would help, but simple emails can be sent by using this command -

echo body_of_the_mail | mail -s subject_of_mail user@domain

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