How do I send mail from inside a script?

bruno buys · 10-06-2004, 06:34 PM

How do I send mail from inside a script?

Thanks!

Samsara · 10-06-2004, 06:45 PM

You mean email? Use mailx.

HTH,

Samsara

bruno buys · 10-06-2004, 07:07 PM

Does mailx use the local send mail agent? Can I point it to another?

Dave Kelly · 10-06-2004, 07:57 PM

It could be something like this: (thanks to CAF Johnson for showing me this.

#!/bin/sh

messagefile=$1 ## contains the message to be sent
[ -f $1 ] || { echo "$messagefile does not exist"; exit 5; }

while read email
do
mail -s "Club newsletter" $email < $messagefile
done
## EOS ##

email contains the e-mail address.