On 1/20/2003 11:28 AM, someone claiming to be Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:09:52 -0500
Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi,
I have a rudimentary script that checks out and compiles the latest GNUCash from CVS. I'd like to have it send me an e-mail when it completes telling me that the new GnuCash is ready for installation, or that the update failed.

So, essentially, my question is: How do I send a mail message from the command line without requiring additional user input?

A quick search on google hasn't yielded much help for me (probly not using the right search terms).

How about this?

cat << *EOF* | sendmail -N failure -n -R hdrs -U -fme@here -- you@there
Subject: GNUCash update
It is finished
*EOF*


The *EOF* are literal strings and can be anything. You can also cat a file
or echo text. Whatever makes you happy. The 'secret' is in the options to
sendmail.

This example is sent from me@here to 'you@there'. There can be more. It
works for all users who can send mail.

You may need to replace 'sendmail' with '/usr/sbin/sendmail' or wherever
sendmail is.


Cool. Thanks. BTW, my sendmail complained about the -U (sendmail-8.12.5-7, RH 8.0), I removed it and it worked. Now to figger out how to include the contents of an environment variable in the script and make it so the To: doesn't get displayed as "undisclosed-recipients"... Hopefully, 'man sendmail' will help ;-)

Thanks again,
Tim


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