command-line sendmail

dajomu · 08-23-2005, 02:59 PM

How do I add subject to sendmail using the command line? This is what I want to do and then add the subject field.

Code:

sendmail user@domain.com < /path/to/the/file

kencaz · 08-23-2005, 05:50 PM

Flying blind here... I use MailX but maybe this will work:

sendmail -s "Your_Subject" user@domain.com < /path/to/the/file

KC

kees-jan · 08-24-2005, 02:40 AM

That will most likely not work.

I concur, though, that sendmail is not the right tool for the job. mail or mutt will serve you better, as they both support the -s option.

If you insist on sticking to sendmail, I'd try something like

Code:

(echo Subject: Your subject ; echo "" ; cat thefile ) | sendmail address@somewhere

Basically, when using sendmail, all headers (including subject) should already be present in the file. So one could even improve this further to:

Code:

(echo To: address@somewhere ; echo Subject: Your subject ; echo "" ; cat thefile ) | sendmail -t

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

dajomu · 08-24-2005, 03:45 AM

Code:

cat /file/name | mail -s subject user@domain.com

Thanks anyway for helping out.