FastMailx: send an email to a preset address

[benjyfeen]

FastMailx

 

Send an email to a preset address in a single command.  Uses OS X's mailx command line util, so it's extremely lightweight and quick.

 

Example:

 

..To do today/Stop hacking on workflows and do the laundry

 

sends an email to my personal address as defined in the script's MAILTO variable:

 

To: <my address>

Subject: To do today

Stop hacking on workflows and do the laundry

 

I'm brand-new to Alfred and very rusty in my UNIX skills, so please: be gentle  I'm unlikely to maintain or extend this, but others are welcome to.

 

Installation

 

• You MUST enable Postfix to make this work!   Instructions for Mountain Lion with Gmail are here:
  http://benjaminrojas.net/configuring-postfix-to-send-mail-from-mac-os-x-mountain-lion/

• Download from http://feen.com/alfred/

• Import and edit MAILTO in the script to set the destination address.

 

Keywords

• ..subject /body - Send a message to MAILTO with subject and body separated by a slash ( / ).

 

Known issues

 

• Doesn't handle errors;  if you don't set your MAILTO address, the command will silently fail.
• No input validation.
• It's pretty crappy. I have no idea what I'm doing.
• A slash may be a lousy field separator;  feel free to change the IFS variable to something better.
• Unforeseen consequences are unforeseen. Could go berzerk and destroy everything you love. Use at your own risk.

 

 

Changelog

• 2013-05-08: Initial release.

Edited May 9, 2013 by benjyfeen