topic Re: automatic mail from linux in Operating System - Linux

automatic mail from linux

Kusuma Sashidhar — Tue, 18 May 2004 01:37:03 GMT

Hi,

Through scripts, if i need to send mails automatically to any email id (internet mails or office mail), what & how should i configure that on linux? Please help?

Thanks in advance,
Kusuma

Re: automatic mail from linux

Mobeen_1 — Tue, 18 May 2004 01:49:56 GMT

Kusuma,
For this you would need to configure sendmail on the Linux server. Please review the links below, they provide sufficient information on how to configure the same

http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/sendmail.htm

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5507

If you have any specific questions, let me know

regards
Mobeen

Re: automatic mail from linux

Kiyoshi Miyake — Tue, 18 May 2004 01:52:44 GMT

Hi,

If you have sendmail on localsoft, you can use sendmail (mail command).
e.g.)
$ mail -s Subject user@domain < conts.txt

If you don't have sendmail or don't configure sendmail,
you can use perl.
Please see perldoc Net::SMTP.
Very simple script makes you happy.

e.g.)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Net::SMTP;

$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost');

$smtp->mail($ENV{USER});
$smtp->to('postmaster');

$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("To: postmaster\n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("A simple test message\n");
$smtp->dataend();

$smtp->quit;
--- from perldoc Net::SMTP ---

Thanks.

Re: automatic mail from linux

Kusuma Sashidhar — Tue, 18 May 2004 03:39:49 GMT

Hello Mobeen,

does that mean that I have to have DNS if I have to send mails outside or is there any other option?

Kusuma

Re: automatic mail from linux

Mobeen_1 — Tue, 18 May 2004 03:54:32 GMT

Kusuma,
Absolutely. You should have a DNS on your domain. I am not aware of any other ways this can be done.

regards
Mobeen

Re: automatic mail from linux

Roberto Polli — Tue, 18 May 2004 08:29:03 GMT

If you're doing it for job:
1) select a mail server [postfix|sendmail]
2) read docs and configure it. It takes 1h using a ready-made config file.
3) use the "mail" command to send mail as suggested above. You can use it too thru piping:

echo "My Mail Body"|mail johnsmith@example.com -c johnholmes@example1.net

Peace, R>

Re: automatic mail from linux

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 18 May 2004 09:23:51 GMT

attaching a useful script for sending attachments.

You can do mail so many different ways.

mail, elm, sendmai all have different and complimentary capabilities.

the right tool for the right job.

SEP

Re: automatic mail from linux

Nicholas Melville — Tue, 18 May 2004 19:02:45 GMT

I would suggest you use postfix. Simple to set up. Set the server to use your office mail server as its relayhost. It can handle where the mail should go.

Re: automatic mail from linux

Derek Whitten — Wed, 26 May 2004 12:39:18 GMT

I agree with Kiyoshi ... use some kind of perl/shell script that is called from cron.