sendmail

[Juerg DENNEBERG]

Hi you all
I got the attached script from i do not remember where. In a way it works for "TO" and "CC". Is anybody able to explain how it works.
How may I send to multiple addressees ("TO's") and or "CC's" and "BCC's". What is obsolete in this script?
Many thanks in advance
Juerg

[Francisco J. Soler]

Hi Juerg,

I have not checked how it works, but, you can send to multiple addresses with the sendmail alias capability, you can put an alias to the TO and CC fields and update the aliases file accondingly.

If you modify the aliases file you must run the newaliases command to rebuild the sendmail aliases database.

Frank.

[Tom Maloy · Accepted solution]

Mail addresses can be tied together with commas. So you should be able to put multiple recipients in double quotes. And I believe that you just need to send the mail once. Not sure about BCC, though.

#!/usr/bin/sh

export EMAIL_TO="dej,tbd"
export EMAIL_FROM=juerg.denneberg@ch.ey.com
export EMAIL_CC="dej,tbd"
export EMAIL_SUBJECT="Dienstleistungsertrag"
export EMAIL_ALL="$EMAIL_TO,$EMAIL_CC"

{
echo To: $EMAIL_TO
echo From: $EMAIL_FROM
echo CC: $EMAIL_CC
echo Subject: $EMAIL_SUBJECT
uuencode DLE.pdf Dienstleistungsertrag.pdf
} | /usr/sbin/sendmail $EMAIL_ALL

First, all of the variables are set (export). Then the sendmail input is constructed (inside the curly braces). Finally, sendmail receives it's input via the pipe.

[Steven E. Protter]

Unix is nice that way, just pub commas between the addresses in the script.

I'm attaching a mail script for reference that also does attachments. Its got five input parameters but I added that and its easy to strip out.

SEP

[Dave La Mar]

Juerg -
Attached is the sample given to our new people.
It covers different types fo email possiblilities. As others have stated, you email list can be in a variable with multiple addresees.

Best of luck.

Regards,

dl

[Juerg DENNEBERG]

Hi Tom

It works. Many Thanks

And Thanks also to all others involved

Regards

Juerg Denneberg