[Evolution-users] Evolution and exim4

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2026-04-15 at 23:32 +1000, rob stone via evolution-users wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use Evolution for receiving and sending e-mails.
> 
> I also want to generate and send e-mails programmatically bypassing
> Evolution.
> 
> To do this I understand I need to make a change to the exim4
> configuration changing dc_eximconfig_configtype='local' to read 
> dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'.

You send emails from the command line without touching the Exim
configuration, e,g, using SendEmail:

Description    : SendEmail is a lightweight, completely command line based, SMTP e-mail
               : client. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl
               : programs and web sites, but is also quite useful in many other contexts.
               : 
               : SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires no special
               : modules. It has a straight forward interface, making it very easy to use.

(This is from the Fedora repo, but I presume it's in Debian too).

poc