Save the password in a file and ask sendemail to read from it?
*Regards, Chhatoi Pritam Baral* On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Mihir Mehta <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi people, > > I'm trying to modify the source of a program named sendemail (it's in > Perl, you can examine it here: > http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/), which serves to > send email from the command line. I am modifying it to use > Term::ReadKey to get the smtp password. An important use case for me > is sending a mail whose contents are exactly the output of some other > shell program, which I do by piping the output into sendemail. My > issue is, however, that when sendemail's standard input is changed in > this way, it is unable to accept the password (for the smtp server) > from the command line (in the sense of displaying a prompt for a > password, the same way as sudo does.) That would mean that the only > way I can make it work with a redirected STDIN is to actually include > my password as a command line option, which is unacceptable for > obvious reasons. Can someone suggest a workaround for this? > > Thanks, > Mihir. > > -- > Mihir Mehta, > B. Tech. student, > Department of Computer Science and Engineering, > Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
