From: Ronald A. Yacketta
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Subject: [newbie] Sendmail/Mailto Automation
Hi All,
I am trying to write a script that will run occasionally, and send email to
me
when certain events happen. I have hit a brick wall in trying to
completely
automate
either sendmail or mailto. I can get them to run automagically up to where
they
expect a text message followed by ctrl-d. I have tried unsucessfully to
get it
to send the contents of a text file as its message. The man pages for both
are
cryptic as best. The one for mailto seems out of whack to boot..
I found a win app called wsendmail that lets you do this all on one command
line:
wsendmail <subject> <sender> <recipient> <message - "Typed in quotes" or
contents of a file>
I even have the source code for wsendmail. I fooled around and compiled it
in
Linux just to see what would happen, but it apparently nees a couple of
files,
and I don't know enough c to get around that!!!
Obviously, I would like to do the same in Linux.
Is there something else non-GUI that I could use to completely automate the
sending of email? Am I missing something obvious in the man pages?
Thanks,
Bryan
