pipe the message to mail

eg

echo "this is the message body"|mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "test email subject"


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:22:36 +1300
mjm159 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> A quick question.  Does anyone know how I can send an email in a 
> non-interactive way?  All I want to do is put the contents of an entire 
> message into one line and post it off.  If I do it like this I can call in 
> some bash commands (like `dmesg`).  Similarly I don't want to write an expect 
> script to do this.
> 
> I can do this for example:
> 
> mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s test1
> 
> But that still expects me to fill in the message body and Cc interactively.  I 
> can't think of another alternative.  Any suggestions?  If I am missing 
> something obvious here, please feel free to point it out.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael.
> 
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> Message generated in webmail.
> 

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