Write a script to send an email from bash

kpelczar · 02-08-2005, 08:20 PM

Hello everyone,

Can someone help me write a script that would send an email to my outside account every two hours from my Linux server. (Please don't ask me why :-) it is a long story). I was thinking about scheduling a job in crontab and just have the script execute every two hours.

I also need to have a subject filed to populate a current date and time in the email that will be sent from the server. I am running RH9 and please let me know if I need to set up send mail or any other type of a email relay in order to make this work.

Thanks in advance for any help or comments.

Rgs.

Konrad,

Tinkster · 02-08-2005, 09:22 PM

Code:

echo "Still alive...  Yours sincerely, Server" | mail -s "2 hours up (again)" me@work.com

And chances are that you'll have to set-up
sendmail or some other MTA ...

Cheers,
Tink

heema · 02-09-2005, 04:07 AM

i got my system to send me an e-mail using my gmail account to tell me what apollon has downloaded

Tinkster · 02-09-2005, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by heema
i got my system to send me an e-mail using my gmail account to tell me what apollon has downloaded ;)

And if you had shared with us "how" that post
would have been valuable ;)

Cheers,
Tink

heema · 02-09-2005, 03:00 PM

sorry i was at work so i didnt have it

Here is how to make mutt send email using ur gmail account

1) Logon to ur gmail account , in settings -> Forwarding and POP
enable pop for all mail

2) Download nbSMTP (nbSMTP is a simple SMTP)
NOTE : u have to have openssl , libssl-dev installed

http://nbsmtp.ferdyx.org/

3) setup mutt by making a file named .muttrc in my HOME

here is mine :

set folder=~/Mail
folder-hook . "my_hdr From: <username@gmail.com>"
set sendmail="/usr/local/bin/nbsmtp -U username -P password -d gmail.com -h smtp.gmail.com -f username@gmail.com -p 587 -M p -S"

NOTE : ofcourse u have to enter ur username and password

Finally test it out by typing :

echo "It Works" | mutt -s "It Finally works" heematux@gmail.com

as for recieving here is a site i have found :

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html

and here is my script :

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Apollon check script
#
#
# To use it type :  ./check.sh filename
#


FILENAME=(*."$1"*)

FILENAME2=$(ls | grep "$1")

FILENAME3=${FILENAME2#*.}


echo -e "\033[0;31mRunning script now\033[0m"

while true; do

if [ -f "$FILENAME3" ]; then

    echo "File $FILENAME3 downloaded"  | mutt -s "File Downloaded" email@gmail.com
    exit

elif [ -f "$FILENAME" ]; then

    echo "File $FILENAME is still being downloaded"

else
    echo "File not found"
    exit
fi

sleep 300       # sleeps for 5 minutes then checks again
done

foo_bar_foo · 02-09-2005, 05:19 PM

python will send mail real easy without using local MTA if that is to your liking
i give a down and dirty example that may not work lest i be acused of
not sharing

Code:

#!/usr/bin/python
import  smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.address.net")
server.sendmail('to@server.com', 'from@myserver.net', "Help, I've Fallen and i can't get up !")
server.quit()