Email Client for Command Line Program. Send email (SMTP) and receive email (POP3 and IMAP) from the command line.

Email Client commands and options

sendemail: Send mail using SMTP (options).

rcvemail: List/read mail using POP3/IMAP (options).

Install and sample usage

Download Command Line Program and install Email Client add-on commands using:

• [CLP] admin –install=’com.softabar.clp.addons.emailclient’

[CLP] is command to execute Command Line Program. See User/Developer Guide for more details.

Sample commands below show how to send/read email using email client commands.

• Send simple mail with sender, recipient, subject and body:
  • [CLP] sendemail  -server=’smtphostname’ -from=”Matti Salo <msaloemail@somewhere.com>” -to=’recipient@somewhereelse.org’ -subject=”This is mail subject” -body=”this is body”
    
• Send simple mail with SSL:
  •  [CLP] sendemail -server=’smtphostname’ -ssl -from=”Matti Salo <msaloemail@somewhere.com>” -to=’recipient@somewhereelse.org’ -subject=”This is mail subject” -body=”this is body line”
• Send HTML mail and read HTML from a separate file:
  •  [CLP] sendemail -server=’smtphostname’ -html -from=”Matti Salo <msaloemail@somewhere.com>” -to=’recipient@somewhereelse.org’ -subject=”This is mail subject” -bodyfile=’c:/mails/mailbody.html’
• Send simple mail and set importance to highest:
  • [CLP] sendemail -server=’smtphostname’ -importance=HIGHEST -from=”Matti Salo <msaloemail@somewhere.com>” -to=’recipient@somewhereelse.org’ -subject=”This is mail subject” -body=”this is body line”
• Send simple mail and attach a file and content of URL:
  • [CLP] sendemail  -server=’smtphostname’ -from=”Matti Salo <msaloemail@somewhere.com>” -to=’recipient@somewhereelse.org’ -subject=”This is mail subject” -body=”attachments” -attach=’file.jpg’ -attach=’server.host.name/images/image.jpg’
• Send simple mails from CSV file. CSV-file format is TAB-separated fields of: to, cc, bcc, subject, body, bodyfile, attachment files. Use comma to separate entries within fields such as comma separated list of attachment files. Extra fields at the end of row, if present, are ignored:
  • [CLP] sendemail  -server=’smtphostname’ -from=”Matti Salo <msaloemail@somewhere.com>” csv=’mailstobesent.csv’
• List mail in a users inbox using POP3:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=’user’ -password=pwd
• List mail in a user’s inbox using IMAP:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -imap -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=’user’ -password=pwd
• List latest 5 mails in a user’s inbox using IMAP:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -imap -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -latest=5
• Display number of emails in user’s inbox:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -mailcount
• Read all emails in a users inbox:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -read=all
• Detach attachment in the first email in a users inbox:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -read=1 -detach
• Save email as PDF:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -read=1 -pdf
• Save email as PDF with specified file name:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -read=1 -pdf=’c:/temp/receivedmail.pdf’
• List only the sender of email:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -format=f
• List the sender and subject of emails:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -format=fs
• List and save as CSV email date, sender and subject:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -format=dfs -dateformat=”yyyyMMdd-HH:mm:ss” -saveas=’mails.csv’
• List and save as CSV email date, sender and subject. Use semicolon as separator:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -format=dfs -dateformat=”yyyyMMdd-HH:mm:ss” -saveas=’mails.csv’ -separator=;
• List mail where email sender is from somewhere.com:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -search=”FROM CONTAINS somewhere.com”
• List mail where email sender includes somewhere.com or sender includes nowhere.com:
  • [CLP] rcvemail -server=’mail.server.com’ -user=user -password=pwd -search=”FROM CONTAINS somewhere.com” -search=”FROM CONTAINS nowhere.com” -or

See User/Developer Guide how to develop your own add-on commands.