Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:19:04 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: L Goodwin <xrayv19@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only Message-ID: <7F3D4980-4827-4877-A33A-E294F7777464@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <551986.10942.qm@web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <551986.10942.qm@web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Aug 30, 2007, at 5:01 PM, L Goodwin wrote: > Chuck, I'd prefer to have the script handle the > mailing so I can test the script (with email send) > manually, independent of cron. > > Still looking for specifics on setting this up and a > bourne shell script example that sends an email. > Thanks! I just ran this: ------- #! /bin/sh SENDMAIL=/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail rm -f /tmp/$$.msg touch /tmp/$$.msg echo 'From: Chuck <cswiger@mac.com>' >> /tmp/$$.msg echo 'To: xrayv19@yahoo.com' >> /tmp/$$.msg echo 'Subject: test message via a shell script' >> /tmp/$$.msg echo >> /tmp/$$.msg echo 'A test message body.' >> /tmp/$$.msg echo >> /tmp/$$.msg cat mailout.sh >> /tmp/$$.msg echo >> /tmp/$$.msg echo '-- ' >> /tmp/$$.msg echo '-Chuck' >> /tmp/$$.msg $SENDMAIL -i -t < /tmp/$$.msg rm /tmp/$$.msg ------- If we're lucky, you just got emailed the content of the script above. :-) -- -Chuck
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