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Can I email or text myself through Python or bash? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/10863052

Noob question incoming, thanks in advance for any help with this!

I have a specific use case in which I want to send an automated email or text to myself once a day (the message is different each time--otherwise I would just set an alarm, lol!). I'm running Pop_OS on an old desktop computer. Where I'm stuck is getting an email to successfully send from the command line. I'm looking for easy-to-follow instructions that would help me do that, and none of the articles or videos I've come across thus far have helped.

I'm aware of Twilio and other services that send SMS messages, but I'm looking for something free. Especially since I only need to text one person (myself), and infrequently at that.

Below is my attempt to send an email with the telnet command. Nothing ever came through...
XXXXXXXX@pop-os:~$ telnet localhost smtp
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 pop-os ESMTP Exim 4.95 Ubuntu Sun, 07 Jan 2024 15:12:28 -0500
HELO gmail.com
250 pop-os Hello localhost [::1]
mail from: [email protected]
250 OK
rcpt to: [email protected]
250 Accepted
data
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
Subject: Test
Body: Is this working?
.
250 OK id=1rMZW4-0002dj-Uy
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use mailx along with a .mailrc file? Once .mailrc is set up it should just need:

$ echo 'is this working?' | mailx -s Test

Not sure exactly what .mailrc needs for gmail but there are tons of guides out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Mailx is exactly what I use to send email from servers for cron jobs. Works great.