Sending email from bash

I need to send emails automatically and regularly triggered by an event.
For the sake of simplicity and robustness i chose mail / mailx.
Sympthom:
. I can send email to myself using my own MBP name [email protected]
. I cannot send any email to outer addressees
in /var/mail/mine I got errors either "Connection refused" or "No route to host"
that is in case of gmail.com domain.
. Than I tried to configure mailx to use remote mail server smtp.gmail.com:587
(this one is used by my mail in Lion )
Here is the ~/.mailrc congfig
alias MYGROUP xxxx yyyy zzzz
set smtp-use-starttls
set ssl-verify=ignore
set smtp=smtps://smtp.gmail.com:587
set smtp-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=[email protected]
set smtp-auth-password=mypass
I started mailx -n -v so the mailrc was used since the delivery report showed all three mails but
resulting in the same errors above and using the port 25 as if all set commands were ignored.
Question: Is there a way to have it worked with this kind of configuration, if so what did I wrong.
(They say it works in Linux / Solaris environment)

Unfortunately that has made no difference. While connected on wifi Ive tried sending a mail. At the top of the screen next to the wifi sign there's something going round and round. At the bottom of the screen it says "sending".

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I am working on writing a bash script to notify one or more users by email of certain events. Run from the Terminal command line, and having the script "echo" text of (what would be) a form letter with in-line variable expansion (i.e., ${VARIABLE}), all seems to work as anticipated. Eventually, I want cron to launch this shell script, and send an email to an "on-subnet" user (I have postfix enabled on my Mac, and there are multiple local user accounts).
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VARIABLE[1]="The 12,345 quick brown foxes "
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${VARIABLE[1]}
${VARIABLE[2]}
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EOF
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jumped over the 67,890 lazy dogs.
This is the last line of the test message.
EOF
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So, I have two questions. First, the easy one (I hope):
How do I delimit the end of the text, that I want to be the message body of the email, from portions of the script that follow said email text?
Next question is a little more involved. You know how, in Mail.app, if you go to Mail Preferences>Accounts>Account Information, you can put multiple email addresses, comma-delimited, in the "Email Address" field? So, if a person entered "[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]" in this field, then, even though (s)he may be at home, and using their home ISP's mail server, (s)he could send an email apparently from either their home, work, or school email address. Of course, the mail headers clearly would show it came from and through their home machine and home ISP, but it would be displayed in the recipient's Mail client viewer as having come from one of [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected].
I'd like to do something similar here, whereby the email (that is being sent to one or more local users' postfix account on my computer) would apparently be sent from "watchdog@localhost" rather than from "jv@localhost" like it seems to do by default. Whatever account the script is run from (or presumbably, whose cron tab is launching the script) is what the "From" address is set to.
I'd rather not create an additional mail account, because I am using Mac OS X built-in accounts for the postfix mailboxes (I don't want to have to maintain a plaintext username:password file in postfix, and I don't want to create an additional user account on the computer).
So, is there a way to specify an alternate "From" username when invoking the mail -s ${SUBJECT} ${RECIPIENT} command in a bash script? Or is there a different, alternate mail command that will let me do so? (please include a description of syntax and how I'd package the above message text for the alternate method).
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The > after EOF is just a typo (or may be added by the Discussion ?) and you must delete it; other > are prompts from the interactive shell. Andy's post shows an interactive use of shell, not a shell script (note the shell prompt % in front of the commands). A typical use of here document may look like
command <<ENDOFDATA
ENDOFDATA
There must be no spaces before and after ENDOFDATA. The word ENDOFDATA can be EOF or any other string which is guaranteed not to appear in the text (the .... in the example above).
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To: jv
From: watchdog
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${VARIABLE[1]}
${VARIABLE[2]}
This is the last line of the test message.
EndOfMessage
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