topic Re: Scripting Mail on Suse in Operating System - Linux

Scripting Mail on Suse

TheJuiceman — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:04:35 GMT

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to use a script to send a mail notification. I've tried using nail (ie. nail -s "Subject" me@domain.com) but it is requiring an interrupt (Cntl D) to complete. How can I script this? Thanks.

Re: Scripting Mail on Suse

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:36:52 GMT

See this:

http://nail.sourceforge.net/man/nail.1.html

It is useful. Sending mail through scripts are as,

http://nail.sourceforge.net/man/nail.1.html#30

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Muthu

Re: Scripting Mail on Suse

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:22:19 GMT

You need to pass the body, create a text file with the body contents, for example, message.txt, and use

mail -s "subject" user@domain.com < message.txt

The message.txt can be any text file, this could be the log of an application or a backup.

Re: Scripting Mail on Suse

TheJuiceman — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:51:51 GMT

Very helpful, gents. Many thanks!!!