Any directory that we can put files for the sendmail to pickup

[Ravi S. Banda]

Hi,
I'm wondering if there's an outbound (like outbox in outlook) directory that we can put our files that gets picked up by sendmail automatically to send out emails.

If so, How do I configure the "TO", "Subject" etc?

Thanks!
Ravi.

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

Sendmail works off of files in the /var/spool/mqueue directory. BUT, the files in this directory are generated by sendmail. They come in pairs - a control file and the message file. It will not work to just drop off a file in this directory, you need to have sendmail generate the pairs as specific info is contain in these files.

As for the "TO", "SUBJECT:, etc. this is automatically generated by sendmail when invoked as dictated by the sendmail configuration file.

[Steven E. Protter]

No, I think you are going to have to script that.

I'm attaching a production sendmail script.

SEP

[Ravi S. Banda]

Thank you, Steven and Rick.
So, a unix shell script in a cron job would work the BEST for us, then.

Thanks!
Ravi.

[HGN]

Hi

If the help from others helped you resolve the issue could you assign the points to people who helped and close this thread

rgds

HGN