sending mail without user input

aatwell · 08-07-2008, 01:19 PM

I've been looking at apps like sendmail, mailx, mutt trying to find one that will let me send an email automatically. Sendmail is a daemon and mailx and mutt both require the body of the message to be typed by a user. What I really need is an app where I can type a message in the command line and have it send the message like this....

mailx -a user@mycompany.com -s "My Subject" -b "Message Body"

Any ideas ?

TB0ne · 08-07-2008, 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aatwell

I've been looking at apps like sendmail, mailx, mutt trying to find one that will let me send an email automatically. Sendmail is a daemon and mailx and mutt both require the body of the message to be typed by a user. What I really need is an app where I can type a message in the command line and have it send the message like this....

mailx -a user@mycompany.com -s "My Subject" -b "Message Body"

Any ideas ?

How about writing a simple shell-script that does exactly the command you specified above???

colucix · 08-07-2008, 01:27 PM

Code:

/path/to/sendmail "some.user@some.domain" << EOF
From: Me <my.mail@my.domain>
To: Recipient <other.mail@my.domain>
Subject: test mail - $variable

`date "+%A %e %b %Y %T"` - report n. $number

`cat /path/to/file.txt`

Best regards,
Alex

EOF

Using sendmail you can use a shell "here document" and can include the output of any command, the content of a file and any other text. If you need to send attachment, I suggest uuenview, which uses sendmail as well:

Code:

/path/to/uuenview -m $email -f "$from" -s "$subject" -a $file << EOF
See $file in attachment.

Best regards,
Alex
EOF

Hope this helps.