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Sending email from command line

I'd use Perl to do this today - either directly with opening "mail" or "sendmail" (see Why I love Perl for examples) or by using one of the many mail related Perl modules available from CPAN.

Simple scripts like this have no error trapping capability and (as Steve points out) can fall into unexpected traps themselves.

As to attachments specifically, see How can I send attachments from the command line? and also CleanCode Email.

From: Tony Lawrence <t...@aplawrence.com<
Subject: Re: mail script
Date: 2000/01/12
Message-ID: <387C65C7.BB9519EA@aplawrence.com<#1/1
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.unix.sco.misc

tt wrote:
< 
< Hello
< 
< I have to make script that sends some log files to myself via sendmail,
< so can anybody help me with script syntax?

SUBJECT="Here's your logs `date`"
SENDTO="bill tom ellen jack somebody@somewhereelse.com"
FILE=/var/syslog
mail -s "$SUBJECT" $SENDTO < $FILE

Is that what you want?



From - Fri Jan 14 07:11:53 2000
From: Steve Wertz <swertz@swertz.scruznet.com>
Subject: Re: mail script
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.unix.sco.misc
Message-ID: <S1yf4.1697$pb2.146443@tw11.nn.bcandid.com> 
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:58:27 GMT

In comp.unix.sco.misc tt <teppot@usa.net> wrote:
> Hello

> I have to make script that sends some log files to myself via sendmail,
> so can anybody help me with script syntax?

Tony posted the more traditional way.  If you insist on using 'sendmail',
a quick look at the man-page suggests I do something like this:

517$ echo "."|/usr/lib/sendmail -bm swertz < /usr/adm/messages

Sometimes people wonder "where did the rest of my mail message
go", only to find that somewhere in the message was a line that started
with and contained only a single dot/period (which truncates a
message in mail/mailx, regardless of '[un]set dot' in your ~/.mailrc').

-sw

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