If one wishes to get an email from a script, it would be nice if there were a simple way to send emails from the terminal. Luckily, there is a simple way. "Heirloom-mailx" is by far the easiest way to make this happen.
I primarily use Ubuntu Server, to install just type
sudo apt-get install heirloom-mailx
With mailx installed, you need to create and edit a new dot-file. Namely, .mailrc (if you already have one, then this might be a good time to take a backup of said file).
# ~/.mailrc set smtp-use-starttls set nss-config-dir=~/.mozilla/firefox/XXXXXX.default/ set ssl-verify=ignore set smtp=smtp://smptpserver.domainname:SMTPPort set smtp-auth=login set smtp-auth-user="user@server.domainname" set smtp-auth-password="password" set from="user@server.domainname(Firstname Lastname)"
In this example, I've assumed that you're using a TLS/SSL smtp-service with login, which reads from firefox user folder in order to read certificates. In order to customize above to your needs, first find out what your firefox-profile folder is called and replace XXXXXX with the correct value. Second, replace the smtp-server info with the one for your needs. Then fill in the email-address you wish to send from with the correct password. Finally, make up a better name to be shown as the sender than "Firstname Lastname".
If you correctly managed to create the .mailrc and saved it to your homefolder, you should be able to send an email with
echo "Message" | mailx -v -s "Subject" recipient@otherDomain.domainname
If something goes wrong, the output of mailx will probably let you know since it is invoked with the verbose (-v) flag. Happy script-mailing!