Send e-mail via applescript

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Is it possible to send an e-mail via AppleScript? Without starting Mail.app or using another e-mail client? Perhaps using ‘sendmail’? Or something?

#2

Hi,

You could try the Xmail osax. http://lestang.org/article44.html

Best wishes

John M

#3

BTW, I’m also going to be posting this script on my website, so that may create a problem for people wanting to use it.

#4

Perhaps you could supply it as an application bundle containing the osax?

I’m not too sure whether there are any problems using the UNIX mail command:

set messTo to "recipient@their.com"
set messFrom to "you@your.com"
set messSub to "Message subject"
set messBody to "test" & return & "this?"

do shell script "echo " & (quoted form of messBody) & " | mail -s " & (quoted form of messSub) & " " & messTo & " -f " & messFrom

man pages for mail

It might help if you could give some more details about your project.

John M

#5

Well, it is open-source, but I’m not sure if that’s legal.

#6

I hope it’s legal, as I do it in one of my apps :smiley:

I use to include the docs of the bundled applications, as well as mentioning clearly to the authors of third-parties in the documentation. Most probably this isn’t quite the rigth behaviour, but I’m sure nobody will blame you, unless you use the bundled software as part of a new commercial OS :lol:

A nice tool is also sendEmail, a powerful and easy-to-use Perl script: http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/