sendmail subject via script

ryedunn · 01-07-2005, 10:02 PM

my script has something like this

> | mail -s "blah blah" $MAILTO

the command mail doesnt work on my box because I use sendmail. I can use

Quote:

#sendmail email@domain.com
Subject: blah blah
.

and that works fine but how can I do this from a shell or rather what do I need to change in the script?

Thank you,
TheGnubie

drj000 · 01-07-2005, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ryedunn
the command mail doesnt work on my box because I use sendmail.

I use sendmail, and the mail command still works for me. I don't understand why it wouldn't work for you. In fact, I just tested it by typing "ls -l | mail -s 'Directory Listing' myemail@isp.com" and I received it without a problem.

ryedunn · 01-08-2005, 11:22 AM

mail command not found

drj000 · 01-08-2005, 12:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ryedunn
mail command not found

Well, mail is a part of the GNU mailutils package, or the mailx package, so if you can get one of those, you'll have mail. It's odd that it wouldn't come with your distribution.