"Keith Burke [Experience IT]" wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>         I'm new to this list but not to MySQL. I've been using MySQL on
> Linux with PHP for the past year or two. I've always managed to sort out
> any problems by looking at the documentation on the website but my
> current problem has me perplexed.
>
>         I need to be able to send Emails to people from MySQL command
> line.
>
>         I'm importing a text file of users via a cronjob. MySQL process
> the data and segragates it into different tables. My problem is that I
> want MySQL to Email the plain text passwords to the users before it
> MD5's them. I cannot find any references that MySQL can run external
> programs [sendmail].
>
> Any help or workarounds [no matter how crazy ;-)] would be appriciated,
> although I'd rather not do the Emailing and MD5'ing at the data source.
>
> Oh, if this isn't the correct mailing list to post this, just let me
> know.
>
> Regards
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Keith,
When you say "Emailing and MD5'ing at the data source.". Are you saying you dont
want to use PHP to insert and email the passwords?

walt


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