[newbie] Sendmail/Mailto Automation
Hi All, I am trying to write a script that will run occasionally, and send email to me when certain events happen. I have hit a brick wall in trying to completely automate either sendmail or mailto. I can get them to run automagically up to where they expect a text message followed by ctrl-d. I have tried unsucessfully to get it to send the contents of a text file as its message. The man pages for both are cryptic as best. The one for mailto seems out of whack to boot.. I found a win app called wsendmail that lets you do this all on one command line: wsendmail subject sender recipient message - "Typed in quotes" or contents of a file I even have the source code for wsendmail. I fooled around and compiled it in Linux just to see what would happen, but it apparently nees a couple of files, and I don't know enough c to get around that!!! Obviously, I would like to do the same in Linux. Is there something else non-GUI that I could use to completely automate the sending of email? Am I missing something obvious in the man pages? Thanks, Bryan
[newbie] Sendmail/Mailto Automation
Never mind... Just found mailx... Sorry for the hasty posting.. Bryan Hi All, I am trying to write a script that will run occasionally, and send email to me when certain events happen. I have hit a brick wall in trying to completely automate either sendmail or mailto. I can get them to run automagically up to where they expect a text message followed by ctrl-d. I have tried unsucessfully to get it to send the contents of a text file as its message. The man pages for both are cryptic as best. The one for mailto seems out of whack to boot.. I found a win app called wsendmail that lets you do this all on one command line: wsendmail subject sender recipient message - "Typed in quotes" or contents of a file I even have the source code for wsendmail. I fooled around and compiled it in Linux just to see what would happen, but it apparently nees a couple of files, and I don't know enough c to get around that!!! Obviously, I would like to do the same in Linux. Is there something else non-GUI that I could use to completely automate the sending of email? Am I missing something obvious in the man pages? Thanks, Bryan
Re: [newbie] Sendmail/Mailto Automation
From: Ronald A. Yacketta have you tried sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] file [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/30/99 12:22:49 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] Sendmail/Mailto Automation Hi All, I am trying to write a script that will run occasionally, and send email to me when certain events happen. I have hit a brick wall in trying to completely automate either sendmail or mailto. I can get them to run automagically up to where they expect a text message followed by ctrl-d. I have tried unsucessfully to get it to send the contents of a text file as its message. The man pages for both are cryptic as best. The one for mailto seems out of whack to boot.. I found a win app called wsendmail that lets you do this all on one command line: wsendmail subject sender recipient message - "Typed in quotes" or contents of a file I even have the source code for wsendmail. I fooled around and compiled it in Linux just to see what would happen, but it apparently nees a couple of files, and I don't know enough c to get around that!!! Obviously, I would like to do the same in Linux. Is there something else non-GUI that I could use to completely automate the sending of email? Am I missing something obvious in the man pages? Thanks, Bryan
