Sendmail - Write html email quickly and send it at terminal

Sendmail is a perfect tool for programmers who prefer to use terminal vim as editor and want to write complicated email easily with markdown syntax and highlight enabled.

Install

git clone https://github.com/chemzqm/sendmail.git
cd sendmail
npm install

Configuration

• Change file sendmail/lib/profile.json.example to sendmail/lib/profile.json.

• Change text in [] of profile.json to your settings.

• Below is an example of gmail settings:

  {
    "server":{
      "user":"chemzqm", 
      "password":"********", 
      "host":"smtp.gmail.com", 
      "port":587
      "tls":true
    },
    "headers":{
      "from":"chemzqm <chemzqm@gmail.com>"
    },
    "footer":"Thanks,<br />Jack\n",  // will be added to the end of your email
    "contacts":{
      "chemzqm":"chemzqm <chemzqm@gmail.com>"
    }
  }
  

  Server settings is the same as project: emailjs.

  Headers is the default head you want to set for your email, including from cc to subject etc.

  Contacts is used for convenient input of contacts emails, all the contact's names will be added to the end of email file you are editing, and what you need to do is just type the property name of contacts seperated by , to the fields to and/or cc, the property name will be converted to property value before email sending.

Usage

• Make sure path ~/bin is included in $PATH, if not, add below to your file ~/.bashrc

  export $PATH=$PATH:~/bin
  

• Enable sendmail by :

  $ ln -s /full/path/to/bin/sendmail ~/bin/sendmail
  

• Send a new email:

  $ sendmail
  

  with optional file content as email content

  $ sendmail filename
  

• Get help:

  $ sendmail -h
  
  Usage: sendmail [options] [number|filename]
  
  Options:
  
    -h, --help                     output usage information
    -V, --version                  output the version number
    -l --list                      show all mails with filename number subject
    -e --edit <number|filename>    edit previous mail and send
    -s --send <number|filename>    send email without using vim to edit
    -d --delete <number|filename>  remove email, could be number separated by comma like: 0,1,2
    -c --cat <number|filename>     show email content, coulad be number separated by comma like: 0,1,2
    -g --grep <text>               grep text in all emails
    -p --profile <name>            use profile when sending email specified by name
  
  

Notice

Multi profile support and attachment is not supported yet.

License

MIT