Re: [Evolution] Using Evolution from the command line.

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:24 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 11:32 +0000, Neil Woolford wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a need to send a short, automatically generated email of system
> > information from one computer to another.
> >
> > Evolution is installed and working on this system, and understood by the
> > local operator, so it would be ideal to generate an email from a shell
> > script.  The local operator could then just press the 'Send' button and
> > the email would be transmitted.
> [snip]
> > It isn't a showstopper, as I can get the machine to send a blank subject
> > message with the system data in the body, which is enough to work with;
> > I would like to be able to do the job more elegantly if possible.
> >
> > Where can I find information about the command line syntax and
> > evolution-shell?
>
> Evo is such a heavy app, why not use something lighter, like mail,
> mutt or pine?

If you just want to send mail from another app (say a Shell script) then
SendEmail works well. You can set up Subject, attachments etc. in the
command line:

http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/

poc