I am trying to write a gjs app that needs to send emails. The way I have found to do this is using spawn_async_with_pipes() to call mail. The app seems to spawn mail, and I don't get an error, but I don't get any useful output nor do I get the test emails...
I have been at this for a while now and have found little to no useful up to date documentation. I am working with gtk3 and gjs (and glib). I have also tried spawning a shell script that in turn calls mail. This resulted in "could not resolve host" errors and a dead letter queue. So I know that I am spawning my command. I am not concerned about the "could not resolve host command", but by the fact that I can't get it by spawning mail directly.
I am spawning mail like this:
const [res, pid, in_fd, out_fd, err_fd] =
await GLib.spawn_async_with_pipes(null,
['mail',
'-V',
`-s "${msgObj.subBlock}"`,
`-r ${to}`,
`-S smtp=${HOST}`,
'-S smtp-use-starttls',
'-S smtp-auth=login',
`-S smtp-auth-user=${USER}`,
`-S smtp-auth-password=${PASS}`,
FROM
], null, GLib.SpawnFlags.SEARCH_PATH, null);
const in_reader = new Gio.DataOutputStream({
base_stream: new Gio.UnixOutputStream({fd: in_fd})
});
var feedRes = in_reader.put_string(msgObj.msgBlock, null);
const out_reader = new Gio.DataInputStream({
base_stream: new Gio.UnixInputStream({fd: out_fd})
});
const err_reader = new Gio.DataInputStream({
base_stream: new Gio.UnixInputStream({fd: err_fd})
});
var out = out_reader.read_until("", null);
var err = err_reader.read_until("", null);
print(` > out : "${out}"`);
print(` > res : "${res}"`);
print(` > feedRes : "${feedRes}"`);
print(` > err : "${err}"`);
err is 0
, and res
is just true
I don't know what the output should be, but I'm not getting a recognizable error, and no email is being delivered... How can I get my app to send emails? Is spawning mail not the way to go? Thanks in advance for any pointers you can give me.