RE: sending mail from a bash script

["David Lubowa" <ziggy@sanyutel.com>]

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

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of
johnjulian1@netscape.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:03 PM
To: Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT; linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
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
>
>
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