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Fairly simple - for example:
I've a script that runs on my website and lets me know when someone leaves me a comment. So, in my AddComment script, there's

Code:

    # Hijack the server's sendmail to send an email 

    MAIL = "/usr/sbin/sendmail"



    # get the email message from a file

    f = open('emailtext', 'r')

    message = f.read()

    f.close()



    #Let myself know the updated URL

    message = message + "\nhttp://www.cybermenology.com/Comments/" + filename



    # open a pipe to the mail program and

    # write the data to the pipe

    p = os.popen("%s -t" % MAIL, 'w')

    p.write(message)

    p.close()



    #Surprisingly enough, I don't really care what the exit code of the write() is.

    #if exitcode:

    #    print "Exit code: %s" % exitcode

The syntax for opening a system pipe may differ slightly depending on what language you're using. The above is python.

The actual text file containing the mail headers and the basic message is:

Code:

[laura@cybermenology.com]$ cat emailtext

To: my_email_address@yahoo.com

From: automated.process@cybermenology.com

Reply-to: laura@cybermenology.com

Subject: New comment



Email message ...words words words....shtufff...blah.

And that's all there is to it.