So I am trying to completely divest myself of all things Google. One major
feature I depend on, however, is email reminders from google calendar. For
some odd reason I have not found a libre program to do this (it must be out
there, but I've yet to find it). For the moment I am using a calendar program
called "pal" and it has the ability to send to email with the following
syntax:
pal --mail -r 1 -c 0 | sendemail -f [email protected] -t [email protected] -u
"Today's schedule" -s smtp.domain.com:587 -o tls=yes -xu myusername -xp
mypassword
Explanation:
Format output so sendemail can understand it. Send me the first reminder, and
don't print a calendar
pal --mail -r 1 -c0
pipe output to sendemail so I can email it to myself.
| sendemail
key to options:
-f from email -t to email -u subject line -s smtp server and port -o
name/value for authentication tls=yes -xu username -xp password
This works! However, because sendemail is receiving piped input, it can't
prompt for a password and I have to use a plain-text password in the above
command.
I would like to set this up as a cron job, but I don't want to store a
plain-text password.
One final point: The program pal says that --mail is used with sendmail. I
couldn't figure out sendmail so easily, so I used sendemail instead. I don't
know if sendmail could do this better?
Questions:
1.) How can I do this in a way that secures the password?
2.) Is there something simpler?
3.) Could sendmail do this better than sendemail
