sending mail from a bash script

sending mail from a bash script

[Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT]

Hi all,

I think this one is quite simple, but couldn't find the answer on the net 
(not in a matter of minutes, that is :-))....

I want to send a mail from a bash script... How do I do this??

TIA,

Dirk

RE: sending mail from a bash script

[johnjulian1]

mail Somebody@somewhere.org < MailMessageFile
or
echo "message to send
including new lines" | mail somebody@somewhere.org

Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT <dirk@bean-it.nl> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I think this one is quite simple, but couldn't find the answer on the net 
>(not in a matter of minutes, that is :-))....
>
>I want to send a mail from a bash script... How do I do this??
>
>TIA,
>
>Dirk
>
>
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RE: sending mail from a bash script

[David Lubowa]

i have a bash script that sends a user mail when created  on the mailserver
i am running Postfix so i can only create a MailDir when i send a user
e-mail when created , have a look through it and see if it i will help you.

[snip]

#!/bin/bash

useradd -mk /dev/shm -d /var/home/$1 -s /bin/false $1;
cd /var/home
chown -R $1.users $1/

echo "blah blah blah  problems e-mail  support@foo.com" | mutt  -s Greetings
$1

[/snip]

hope this helps ..thats how i am sendig an e-mail from a bash script. works
well for me :)

ziggy

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Subject: RE: sending mail from a bash script


mail Somebody@somewhere.org < MailMessageFile
or
echo "message to send
including new lines" | mail somebody@somewhere.org

Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT <dirk@bean-it.nl> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I think this one is quite simple, but couldn't find the answer on the net
>(not in a matter of minutes, that is :-))....
>
>I want to send a mail from a bash script... How do I do this??
>
>TIA,
>
>Dirk
>
>
>-
>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in
>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
>More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
>


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Re: sending mail from a bash script

[Glynn Clements]

Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT wrote:

> I think this one is quite simple, but couldn't find the answer on the net 
> (not in a matter of minutes, that is :-))....
> 
> I want to send a mail from a bash script... How do I do this??

	sendmail recipient@foo.com < msg.txt

or similar. The input should be a complete message, including headers.

Using mailx (aka "mail") is best avoided. It may just feed the message
directly to sendmail (so there's no advantage to using mailx), or it
may attempt to process "tilde" sequences, which is usually the wrong
thing to do.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>