{"id":707,"date":"2014-05-06T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2014-07-20T23:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T03:35:47","slug":"how-to-send-email-from-the-command-line-with-sendgrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/06\/how-to-send-email-from-the-command-line-with-sendgrid\/","title":{"rendered":"How to send email from the command line with SendGrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sending email should be simple. It's something I really don't like thinking about.<\/p>\n

I ran into an issue where I wanted to send email from the command line in a bash script that helps power Review Signal. A notification when something goes wrong.<\/p>\n

The only problem, I don't have any mailing program installed. I also don't really want to send email from my servers because making sure they get through isn't something I want to spend a lot of time thinking about.<\/p>\n

The first solution that jumped to mind was SendGrid<\/a>, who I had the pleasure of trying out their API at PayPal BattleHack DC<\/a>. It was dead simple. I had integrated it into PHP though. I didn't know if it worked from the command line.<\/p>\n

I checked the docs<\/a> and found they had a rest API.<\/p>\n\n

curl -d<\/span> 'to=destination@example.com&toname=Destination&subject=Example Subject&text=testingtextbody&from=info@domain.com&api_user=your_sendgrid_username&api_key=your_sendgrid_password'<\/span> https:\/\/<\/span>api.sendgrid.com\/<\/span>api\/<\/span>mail.send.json<\/pre><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n\n
If you want to clean it up with variables:<\/p>\n\n
#!\/bin\/sh<\/span>\nSGTO<\/span>=receiver@<\/span>example.com\nSGTONAME<\/span>='Some Name'<\/span>\nSGSUBJECT<\/span>='Email Subject'<\/span>\nSGFROM<\/span>=from@<\/span>example.com\nSGTEXT<\/span>='Email Text'<\/span>\nSGUSER<\/span>=user\nSGPASS<\/span>=password\ncurl -d<\/span> "to=${SGTO}<\/span>&toname=${SGTONAME}<\/span>&subject=${SGSUBJECT}<\/span>&text=${SGTEXT}<\/span>&from=${SGFROM}<\/span>&api_user=${SGUSER}<\/span>&api_key=${SGPASS}<\/span>"<\/span> https:\/\/<\/span>api.sendgrid.com\/<\/span>api\/<\/span>mail.send.json<\/pre><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/div>\n\n
Voila! Sending emails from my bash script is now simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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