How to Install SendEmail in Linux

This tutorial will help you to install a command line utility for sending emails from SMTP servers.

What is SendEmail?

SendEmail is a lightweight command-line, SMTP e-mail client. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl programs, and websites, but is also quite useful in many other contexts. SendEmail is written in Perl programming language and is unique in that it requires no special modules. It has a straightforward interface, making it very easy to use.

Installing SendEmail on Linux

The sendemail package is available under default package repositories for most Linux systems. Use the default package manager to install sendemail package on your system.

• Using Debian package manager:

  sudo apt update 
  sudo apt install sendemail -y 
  

• Using DNF package manager:

  sudo dnf makecache --refresh 
  sudo dnf install sendemail -y 
  

Sending Emails with SendEmail

Now, you can send emails via the remote SMTP servers via the command line or shell scripts. In order to send emails, you need SMTP details.

Here is the basic sendemail command with the required parameters.

echo "Email content here" | sendemail -l email.log \
     -u "Email Subject" \
     -f "[email protected]" \
     -t "[email protected]"  \
     -s "smtp.gmail.com:587"  \
     -xu "SMTP USER NAME"  \
     -xp "SMTP USER PASSWORD" \
     -o tls=yes 

Type sendemail on terminal and hit enter to get more details about command line parameters.

Conclusion

This tutorial helped you to install the SendEmail command line utility for sending emails via remote SMTP servers. You can use any SMTP provider like Amazon SES, Sendgrid, Mailchimp, etc.