Automate Your Entire Email Workflow from the Terminal — No SMTP, No Sendmail

You have a cron job that needs to send a report every morning. A CI pipeline that emails test results. An AI agent that triages your inbox. All of these need email — and all of them hate SMTP configuration. The Nylas CLI handles email through Gmail, Outlook, Exchange, Yahoo, iCloud, and IMAP from a single command-line interface. No SMTP server. No app passwords. No sendmail configuration. Here's how to build a complete email automation workflow. Step 1: Get Set Up in 2 Minutes Install and authenticate: brew install nylas/nylas-cli/nylas nylas init nylas init runs a 4-step wizard: account creation, app selection, API key generation, and email sync. For CI/CD, skip the wizard: nylas init --api-key nyl_abc123 Already have credentials? Use nylas auth config to store your API key, then nylas auth login to connect a mailbox via OAuth. Want to try it without connecting a real account? nylas demo email list shows sample data with zero configuration. Pro tip: run nylas completion bash and pipe