A non-sendmail specific version: mail -s "GNUCash update" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < "message f00"
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
