Auto-Sending Mail Under GNU/Linux
Recently I’m running a matlab program which may need several days. And I don’t hope to login remote host many times to see whether it is done, which is a bad thing for me.
I hope when it’s done there will be a mail for me. A mail client is working on my PC all the time, so I can see it.
I asked google if there is a solution for my problem. And I found it in many pages with the same content. And I can’t find who is the author for it. So bad!
The Solution:
You should install mutt and msmtp, and configure them right, and add your auto-sending scipt(I written it by bash) to cron.
And Debian GNU/Linux, it’s so easy.
Install mutt and msmtp via apt-get command:
sudo apt-get install mutt msmtp
The following is my configuration(you need replace user and domain.com to your mail account and server):
cunzhang@node31:~$ cat .msmtprc
#user@domain.com
account usr@domain.com
host smtp.domain.com
from usr@domain.com
tls on
auth on
user usr@domain.com
password ****cunzhang@node31:~$ cat .muttrc
set folder=”~/.mail”
set mbox=”~/.mail/inbox”
set mbox_type=maildir
set record=”~/.mail/sent”set sendmail=”/usr/bin/msmtp -a usr@domain.com”
set realname=”cunzhang”
set use_from=yes
set editor=”vim”Then test whether it works.Mine works fine.
I write a bash script to detect matlab’s process and send email to me when the process is gone. Add it to crontab which makes that script run 1 time every2 hours.
