Re: batch mode to send an email

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

ken wrote:
> Trying to get emacs to send an email.  I've heard other people have
> gotten this to work and have even been using it.  So I'm hoping I won't
> have to upgrade anything to accomplish this.
> 
> I've read a lot of documentation on sending email with emacs.  But what
> has been hinted at there hasn't yet worked for me (in many years).
> (Yeah, I used to use gnus, but switched long ago... another story,
> irrelevant here.)
> 
> To eliminate the possibility of misconfiguration in ~/.emacs, I'm
> calling the elisp file from a tiny bash script.  I.e., if the
> documentation on using emacs in batch mode is correct, ~/.emacs is not
> read when emacs is called in batch mode.

That is correct.

> To lower the bar for emacs as far as possible, at this point in
> development I'm only asking the elisp script to send something--
> anything at all, even garbage-- to port 25 on a server we'll call
> mail.server.tld.  That is, at this point it doesn't have to (though it
> may and eventually must) specify a local user, a destination email
> address, subject line and other headers, body of the email.  In order to
> eliminate as much as possible any misconfiguration which would cause the
> entire elisp script not to work, at this point I'm only trying to get
> emacs to do the very first, very smallest step in sending an email in
> batch mode.  If emacs needs to do more than this in order to function at
> all, that's fine.  I'm just trying to keep things as absolutely simple
> as possible.  I'll be delighted if emacs does something that even
> remotely looks like sending an email.

(setq send-mail-function 'smtpmail-send-it
       smtpmail-smtp-server "mail.server.tld")

(setq mail-default-headers
       "X-RTFM: Sending Mail; Mail Sending; (smtpmail)Emacs Speaks SMTP\n")

(mail nil "someuser@somewhere.somedomain" "my favorite subject")

(insert "Blah, blah, blah.\n")

(mail-send-and-exit)

-- 
Kevin