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ScottEdge
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 Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: Command Line email client |
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febooti Command line email client is powerful but easy-to-use email sending utility, which supports most of e-mail client sending capabilities.
febooti Command line email - Utility to send mail
With febooti Command line email you can send mail directly from windows command line (DOS prompt). You can attach files to email, use HTML e-mail messages, use CC (Carbon Copy) and / or BCC (Blind Carbon Copy). Call febooti Command line email from Scheduled Tasks, CGI scripts, VBA, virtually from any software etc., also can be used in automatic email tasks and MAPI replacement.
new version 1.3
Also you can set alternate text for email programs that do not support HTML messages, set message text encoding and more. FREE lifetime updates / upgrades for registered users!
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febooti Command line email client has the following features:
Send email from command line to any number of recipients (may be limited by your ISP SMTP server)
Send email from Scheduled Tasks, any software that can execute external commands, CGI scripts (ASP, PHP, etc.)
Send email using CC (Carbon Copy) and/or BCC (Blind Carbon Copy)
Send email message using plain text or HTML message with embedded pictures
Set alternate text for email programs that do not support HTML messages
Set SMTP server address and SMTP server port; the address may be used as a traditional URL (e.g.: mail.sender.com) or as an IP numeric address (e.g. 10.123.123.123)
Use mail server authentication (AUTH PLAIN, AUTH LOGIN) before sending email
Friendly name in both the TO and FROM fields (this name appear in email instead of your e-mail address)
Unlimited attachments
For batch programming return codes to check success or failure from environment variable %errorlevel%
Ability to set message priority (HIGHEST, HIGH, NORMAL, LOW, LOWEST, NOT SET)
Optional reply-to email address and reply-to friendly name
Ability to set message text encoding
Ability to set message comment
Ability to set organization of a sender
Ability to take parameters from a text file or files
Option to request read confirmation
Plain text or MIME encoding (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)
Auto dial (if modem is used)
Bind IP address (if more than one interface/LAN card is used)
Ability to set timeouts manually
Optionally displays Windows message box after message is send
Optional quiet mode - suppress normal output
Optional debug mode - view internal variables and SMTP server messages
Extremely fast Install / Uninstall
e-update - checks for updates automatically so you always have the latest version
Works on Microsoft Windows (95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP / Longhorn)
Works on any 486 or Pentium CPU with 16MB of RAM |
http://www.febooti.com/products/command-line-email/ There is a 30 day free trial |
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bnbn2000
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| blat is free... |
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majkinetor
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: |
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... and slow
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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PhiLho
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| Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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How fast do you need it to be? Sending big log files in body? Big attachments?
How much slower it is compared to, say Outlook Express or Thunderbird?
Do you know something faster?
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majkinetor
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:02 am Post subject: |
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FIrst of all, this is console utility. That means that its domain is entirely different then hi-end GUI apps like Outlook, The Bat or similar.
In console, I use it for automatition. For instance I had a script to automaticaly send me my dynamical IP adress once it is assigned (on system start). It was sending the mail up to 2 minutes.
This is used to automate some tasks.. for instance to send mail to 1000 computers on single click (with some admin note, lets say)..... so...
| Quote: | | How fast do you need it to be? |
... as fast as possible. Real time, if possible 
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SanskritFritz
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:26 am Post subject: |
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I think Blat's speed depends heavily on the SMTP server's speed. To say
| Quote: | | It was sending the mail up to 2 minutes. |
How did you compare its speed to other console email utilities? Did you perform a stress test on more programs? I use Blat from an AHK script, it works lighning fast for my purposes (i get the mail in 5 seconds). The server is Excange on my workplace.
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PhiLho
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| majkinetor wrote: | | FIrst of all, this is console utility. That means that its domain is entirely different then hi-end GUI apps like Outlook, The Bat or similar. |
Indeed, but I meant "how much slower" between, say after hitting Enter on the console to execute the command line sending an e-mail with Blat, and hitting Enter on the GUI to send the message in the Compose window, and the message being processed by the SMTP server.
| majkinetor wrote: | | Quote: | | How fast do you need it to be? |
... as fast as possible. Real time, if possible |
So, you are judging on your needs, not comparing to something faster. That's probably e-mail which is slow by itself, you might need another communication channel. Of course, the advantage of e-mail is that it is widely implemented, almost universal.
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majkinetor
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Might be that my network is slow. I tested on 2 networks though...
| Quote: | | So, you are judging on your needs, not comparing to something faster. |
Not exactly. I was comparing it to.. how was its name...I cant remember... and it was faster. I kept blat because that one was not freeware and I didn't need fast sends up to day. If Sans say it works fine , then OK, but 5 seconds is long for single e-mail. Imagine 1000 e-mails and the time...
Speaking of this I found this in my console tools:
http://www.mailsend-online.com/
Maybe I tried with that one.. I see it is shareware
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SanskritFritz
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| majkinetor wrote: | | then OK, but 5 seconds is long for single e-mail. Imagine 1000 e-mails and the time... |
I think those 5 secs were the time that Exchange needed for sending the mail. I get the exact same result when I send a mail from Outlook. I think the time Blat spends on its own is simply not comparable to the time the SMTP server is spending sending the mail. It would catch me as a surprise when another command line mail would come up with a significantly better result.
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PhiLho
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:34 am Post subject: |
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| SanskritFritz wrote: | | It would catch me as a surprise when another command line mail would come up with a significantly better result. |
Perhaps if the utility includes a mail server of its own... I think some professional tools do that, but I don't know well this field.
AFAIK, a base program just connect to the mail server it is pointed to, dialog with it (with the SMTP protocol) and leave the e-mail to it. The mail server has to find the target server(s), dialog with them (which protocol?) to find if the e-mail address is known by them, then pass the e-mail to them so they deliver it to the users when they connect to their server (with POP3 or IMAP protocol). With possible refinements like mailing lists, spam control, etc.
Having a mail server of its own will remove the dependency on a slow, complex and perhaps busy remote server and allow to contact directly the target servers.
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SanskritFritz
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:22 am Post subject: |
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Maybe using http://www.xmailserver.org/ can speed things up.
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majkinetor
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, philho, very good observation....
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| If you use a local SMTP server, it will ofcourse be much faster, but: local SMTP server means it can be abused for spamming. E.g. I use Foxmail as an e-mail client, and it has a local SMTP server built-in. Yet, it is crippled, so it can not be abused to send mass-mail (a.k.a. spam). |
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SanskritFritz
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| Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| not-logged-in-daonlyfreez wrote: | | local SMTP server means it can be abused for spamming. |
By who? You can disable relaying.
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