Re: [Evolution] Evo and command line mode

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 15:26 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El dÃa Tuesday, May 29, 2012 a las 08:05:34AM -0400, Matthew Barnes escribiÃ:
>
> > On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 13:54 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > Has Evo (2.32.3) somehow a command line mode to send e-mails using the
> > > configured infrastructure in Evo, for example do something like:
> > >
> > > $ evo -t recipient zone foo -a file-to-attach -m "short msg for boy"
> >
> > You can open a composer window by passing a mailto: URL, but Evolution
> > is not a command line tool.
>
> That's a pitty and a missing feature, I think.

Why not just use the "mail" command?  e.g.

  $ echo "short msg for boy" | mail -a file-to-attach recipient zone foo

I realise it may require setting up sendmail (or equivalent) on your
local machine, but that's not a tremendously difficult thing.

P.