Cmdline mail client that talks to remote SMTP server?

[Steve Ringwald]

Matt England wrote:
> (I'm cross-posting this to Fedora and Redhat lists, I hope that's ok.)
>
> I would like to send email from a CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Fedora command
> line client.  However, I want to be able to send the mail via a remote
> SMTP server, and thus said email cmdline app must also be a SMTP
> client.
>
> Does any such thing exist?  External projects perhaps?  Google has not 
> yet turned up anything for me, other then smtp libraries to program 
> around.
>
> I man mail(1)/mailx(1) on a Debian3.1-testing system and I found no
> SMTP reference in the man page.
>
> Do I effectively need to write some PHP, Python, or Perl app to do
> this...something that uses an SMTP module from one of the
> aforementioned language libraries?  (I'd like to avoid writing a 
> C/C++/Java program for this...) 

I believe that the New MH mail system will do that, and is fairly good 
at handling scripted input.

http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/