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Title: e-mail via command line
Post by: osiris9510 on December 16, 2005, 08:04:28 PM

Is there a way to send e-mail using the command line/bash script?? Id like to e-mail server logs to myself when Im away from the server.

Title: Re: e-mail via command line
Post by: mapangojoe on December 16, 2005, 10:07:40 PM

Quote from: "osiris9510"

Is there a way to send e-mail using the command line/bash script?? Id like to e-mail server logs to myself when Im away from the server.

Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
            [- sendmail-options ...]
       mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
       mail [-iInNv] [-u user]

You can also type "info mail" or "man mail" for more info.

  I hope the above info helps!

Chris Curtis

Title: e-mail via command line
Post by: osiris9510 on December 17, 2005, 12:03:47 AM

can you give me an example to send a short message?

Title: e-mail via command line
Post by: aaron on December 17, 2005, 02:14:16 AM

I've used:

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mail -s"Server $HOSTNAME booting" monitor@blah.com admin < /tmp/msg.tmp

to send an email to "monitor" and "admin" where the email body is the contents of the file msg.tmp.

Interactively you can do a:

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mail -sSUBJECT who@there.org <ENTER>
then type any message content then when done type a single .<ENTER> on an empty line (I thin kit asks for a CC address) then off goes the email.

Check out "mutt" rather than "mail" if you wish to send an attachment.