How do I send mail from inside a script?
 

How do I send mail from inside a script?


Thanks!

You mean email? Use mailx.

HTH,

Samsara

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

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.