gomail

README

gomail

One day my friend asked me if it's possible to automate sending e-mails, so I decided it's a great opportunity to practice Go and here it is - a tiny program that can send e-mails via SMTP.

It was created for educational purposes only, don't use it to spread spam.

You need to have an account on a mail server (e. g. Gmail, Outlook or own server) to use this program!

How to install

Stable release

Download the executable for your operating system from https://github.com/alexcoder04/gomail/releases/latest.

Compiling yourself

git clone https://github.com/alexcoder04/gomail
cd gomail
make linux # or `make windows`

How to use (important!)

The program is configured with the following files:

<USER_CONFIG_DIR>/gomail/settings.yml

You can use another file by passing the -s flag (e. g. gomail -s mysettings.yml)

The host address can vary depending on your e-mail provider, most likely it's something like mail.example.com or smtp.example.com. The port is also different for different e-mail providers.

For the username, it is the part of the mail address before the @-sign for my provider, but it may be the full address (e. g. on Gmail) or something completely different for your e-mail provider.

From: youraddress@example.com
Addr: smtp.example.com:587
Host: smtp.example.com
Username: youraddress@example.com
Password: YourSecureP4ssw0rd
Subject: Hello friends!

<USER_CONFIG_DIR>/gomail/recipients.txt

You can use another file by passing the -r flag (e. g. gomail -r friendslist.txt)

myfriend1@example.com
myfriend2@example.com

./mail.txt

You can use another file by passing the -b flag (e. g. gomail -b hello.txt)

Hello friends,

I sent this mail to you using gomail.

Have a nice day :)

FAQ

Can I trust you that you aren't going to steal my password?

• Although I never would even try to do something like that, you can't. But you can read through the code and compile it yourself, so you don't have to trust anyone :)