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Show HN: Mailer – our in-house tool for sending email from the command line
- brudgers 11y agoDirect link to tool: https://www.dirwiz.com/mailer/ https://www.dirwiz.com/mailer/
- dirwiz 11y agoAuthor here.. Thanks. After re-reading the post the link was buried in the article and not that obvious..
- jastr 11y agoHave you considered Open Sourcing this? I'd like to use it and I like the syntax. But I'd feel more comfortable if I could check out the source.
- nikolay 11y agoYup, no open source, no thank you.
- godzillabrennus 11y agoSeems crazy that it's not being open sourced even though they make sure to state they use open source tools on their site.
- ajwinn 11y agoThis is probably a dumb question, but how do I get this to work in OS X? Bash says it cannot execute binary file despite chmod +x /path/to/mailer - thanks.
- dirwiz 11y agoGood question. If we can figure out OS X in VirtualBox we should have a good shot at getting a build for Mac working.. Stay tuned...
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- attractiveape 11y agoNo provided source code? Is this 1990?
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- tahssa 11y agoComplaining when getting something for free? Is this 2015?
- cbsmith 11y agoConsidering what it does, the consequent benefits to it being open source, and that there are already open source tools to do this out there, it does not seem like an unfair criticism.
- tahssa 11y agoHaving it open source is undoubtedly better, however one can simply ask for the source as often people do. Snark just leads to people not bothering at all.
- cbsmith 11y agoAs the old expression goes, "open source is more than just source code". Honestly --and I'm not trying to be snarky here-- in this case, I'm not sure I understand how "not bothering at all" would actually be worse. Maybe I don't understand something about the value.
- tahssa 11y agoThere are people making comments asking for help on OSX so they might have a different opinion than you, but beyond that we also have to consider other members seeing these kinds of comments may decide not to bother. So yes, you don't care about this project, but you might care about other projects that may never see the light of day as a consequence.
- GauntletWizard 11y agoIn a similar vein but open source is ssmtp. It's a simple MTA that hands off the dirty work of sending e-mail to a real mailserver, and can be configured to use your existing SMTP server as a bounce point, or if you're running a personal server, your gmail account.
- nikolay 11y agoI personally use msmtp [0]. [0]: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
- sarreph 11y ago>> It runs on every platform we can think of (Windows 64bit, Linux 32 & 64 Bit, Raspberry Pi!) How would I go about running the binary on OS X? I assume it's possible? Thanks...
- dz0ny 11y agoI prefer swaks
- nikolay 11y agoThanks for posting! It looks nice!
- cbsmith 11y agoI'm not clear as to why anyone thought this tool was needed or was any more complex than a simple script. This functionality is built in to most platforms.