Sending Email from an ESXi host using netcat

Following script will use netcat tool to send report emails from an ESXi server. For those who don't know about netcat tool according to wikipedia:-
 Netcat (often abbreviated to nc) is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP. Netcat is designed to be a dependable back-end that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts.

Now create a file mail.sh and add following lines to it:-

{
sleep 5;
    echo 'HELO smtp.something.net';
        sleep 3;
            echo 'MAIL FROM:<root@somthing.net>';
                sleep 3;
                    echo 'RCPT TO: <admin@somthing.net>';
                        sleep 3;
                            echo 'DATA';
                            sleep 3;
                            echo 'Subject: Esxi RAID Status';
           OUTPUT="$(./opt/hp/hpssacli/bin/hpssacli controller all show config)"
                                sleep 5;
                                    echo "${OUTPUT}";
                                            echo '.';
                                            } | nc smtp_ip 25

This script will send RAID status of ESXi host to admin@somthing.net as per set cron. Modify smtp address ,RCP TO and MAIL FROM variable as your need and include desired command inside OUTPUT variable.
Don't forget to add execute permission
# chmod 755 mail.sh
Test Your script and you should get results something like this:-

Check your inbox and you'll results of OUTPUT variable command.