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Re: Sending email from a shell script

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Aug 1st, 2005

Hey Shanenin,

Is ther a way to use Linux Sendmail or Mail to send a message to an IP address ?

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Re: Sending email from a shell script

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I personally have never used mail or sendmail.

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Re: Sending email from a shell script

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Originally Posted by leoman

have written a shell script in which I use fastmail to send emails from the shell script.
It sends email to my company account with no problem. But I wan to send the same email to a pager number so that the pager goes off when the particular condition occurs.
I see that email is not being send to the pager from this script.

I tried sending email from my company email account to the pager email and the pager goes of with the email from company email account.

Any idea why this might be happening so? Is there anything else that I should use to send emails to pager

Thanks!

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Re: Sending email from a shell script

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May 8th, 2008

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Originally Posted by YUPAPA

One command does it all ~ :p

echo "Message Content" | mail -s "Subject goes here" you@domain-name.com

I tried the same but when the mail is send ... The from address is diffirent like <yourlogin@yourmachinename.local>
How to solve this

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Re: Sending email from a shell script

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May 8th, 2008

Hey There,

You can try piping everything to sendmail -t (mail and mailx use sendmail). The -t flag means you have to specify headers, though, so:

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(echo "Subject: My Subject";echo "From: my@address.com";echo "To: your@address.com";echo "Reply-To: my@address.com";echo "X-Whatever: Any Other Headers You Want To Include";echo CONTENT;cat FILE)|/usr/lib/sendmail -t

sendmail might be in /usr/sbin/ also.

All the header information, CONTENT and FILE are just placeholders. Hopefully that will help you out. You may see an error in your syslog that the "sender was forced with -f" but that should be okay unless your mailserver won't accept it.

Best wishes,

Mike

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