Last Updated on January 31, 2022 EST by Jordan
Doing a quick Google search for sending emails from Synology via CLI/SSH talks about the sendmail command. However, this doesn’t work on DSM6 unless you install a package that provides the command.
You can install one of the following packages to get the sendmail command
- Synology Mail Server
- Synology MailPlus Server
Both allow you to set up an SMTP mail relay such as Gmail, Postmark, or Sendgrid. But that means you need to install and run these services. This is not ideal if you’re not using all the features of these applications.
Instead, you can look at using ssmtp which is installed by default and will use the built-in SMTP configuration that is present in the Synology Control Panel -> Notification -> Email.
You will have to make sure you use the appropriate email headers such as From: when piping in data to be sent via email like so.
echo "From: [email protected]\nthis is a test" | ssmtp [email protected]
You could also look at using Sendgrid or Postmark with Bash. There are two scripts that would work for this.
- SendGrid