使用 Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts 安装 sendemail

项目链接

• 主页
• 软件包管理器页面

命令和别名

• sendEmail

项目历史

Brandon Zehm created sendEmail as a lightweight command-line SMTP email client written in Perl. The project emphasizes sending mail directly from scripts without requiring a full graphical client.

采用历史

sendEmail has remained available across several Unix-oriented packaging ecosystems, including Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora-family repositories, and MacPorts. Its longevity reflects the usefulness of a small, dependency-light SMTP sender in scripts and administrative jobs.

使用方式

Users invoke sendEmail with command-line options specifying sender, recipients, subject, message content, attachments, and an SMTP server. It is commonly used in shell scripts, monitoring alerts, cron jobs, and minimal environments where a full mail client is unnecessary.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

The package is a classic example of a mature single-purpose Perl utility preserved by distribution maintainers. Its executable uses the distinctive capitalization sendEmail, while package managers commonly publish it under the lowercase name sendemail.

时间线

• 2000s: sendEmail emerged as a standalone Perl SMTP-sending utility.
• Later adoption: Packaged by major Unix-like package collections, including Debian, Ubuntu, Homebrew, MacPorts, and Fedora-family repositories.

Related projects

• sendmail and mail/mailx occupy adjacent command-line mail niches, but sendEmail is an SMTP client rather than the Sendmail mail-transfer agent.

来源

• http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail
• source_facts.description
• source_facts.executables
• source_facts.package-manager