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!
Download the executable for your operating system from https://github.com/alexcoder04/gomail/releases/latest.
git clone https://github.com/alexcoder04/gomail cd gomail make linux # or `make windows`
The program is configured with the following files:
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: [email protected] Addr: smtp.example.com:587 Host: smtp.example.com Username: [email protected] Password: YourSecureP4ssw0rd Subject: Hello friends!
You can use another file by passing the -r flag (e. g. gomail -r friendslist.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 :)
- 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 :)