On Tuesday 03 January 2012 00:47, Rick wrote: > I'm having some difficulty in interpreting the latest usage syntax for > SendMail. I'm only familiar with the version in the BusyBox of a couple > years ago, which included more switches. The old syntax for my purposes was: > > sendmail -S"smtp server address" -f"from email address" -F"From name" > -d"sender's domain" -s"Subject" -m"content of the message" > [email protected] > > Of the above switches, apparently only -S and -f survive in the current > version, depending on what -o "Various options" means. So, I'm a little > puzzled about how to go about things now, particularly if there's no -m (I > think redirection of a file containing the message might be involved now, > but I failed at that as well). > > Could someone list a concrete example for me? Thanks.
> sendmail command line was made more compatible with "standard" one - > which isn't doing any composition (it does not add From/To/Subject > lines etc, it simply sends the data supplied on stdin). > You need to add those lines yourself. On a quest to see what's involved with that, I found the manual (http://www.sendmail.org/doc/sendmail-current/doc/op/op.pdf). Queue files, data files, oh my. There doesn't appear to be any practical way to use this on an embedded system any longer without quite a bit more study. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
