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Spam Resource: Let’s send email….with curl!
- April 6, 2022
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just posted a new brilliant blog on Spam Resource:
Hey, *nix users! Did you know that you can send email using cURL? If you weren’t aware, cURL “is a computer software project providing a library (libcurl) and command-line tool (curl) for transferring data using various network protocols. The name stands for ‘Client URL’ (wikipedia).” It’s a very handy tool for those of us working in the email security, anti-spam or software-as-a-service space, allowing us to interact with web servers and services to download files and data. I use it quite a bit. But I had no idea that it can speak SMTP! It doesn’t look too difficult, either.Here’s how I tested it myself, composing the command thusly (ignore those goofy quotes at the start and end): curl –ssl-reqd –url ‘smtp://gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com:25’ –mail-from blarfengar@xnnd.com –mail-rcpt nugget@wombatmail.com –upload-file –
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