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Using Shell Script how to send mail automatically

Jan 31st, 2005

Hi all,
Problem: Send mail is configured in my system and now i want to write a shell script using which i can send mail to my rediffmail account.

Its little urgent & i will be very thankful if someone send me the code.
regards,
Sanjeev Kumar(sanju456@rediffmail.com)

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Re: Using Shell Script how to send mail automatically

Feb 3rd, 2005

Hi,

You don't need to write shell script for this one. You can do it in command line itself.

echo "This is mail body" | mail -s "This is subject" mail_ID@somedomain.com

Or

cat mail_body_file.txt | mail -s "This is subject" mail_ID@somedomain.com

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Re: Using Shell Script how to send mail automatically

Nov 6th, 2008

how to send autometic mail usins Linux shell script

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Re: Using Shell Script how to send mail automatically

Nov 6th, 2008

You have already been told - just use the mail command to do what you want to do, nested in the logic you want it done for.

For instance, the following will check to see if a file exists every 3 minutes. If the file exists, it will e-mail the contents of the file to mail_ID@somedomain.com and then move the file to another location (so that the same file is not sent again).

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while [1]
do
 if [ -f /path/to/file ]
 then
    cat /path/to/file | mail -s "This is subject" mail_ID@somedomain.com
    mv /path/to/file /path/to/somewhere/else
 fi
sleep 180
done
while [1]
do
 if [ -f /path/to/file ]
 then
    cat /path/to/file | mail -s "This is subject" mail_ID@somedomain.com
    mv /path/to/file /path/to/somewhere/else
 fi
sleep 180
done

[I believe]You will need to have an e-mail server installed on the machine. Otherwise, there is a perl script out there called "sendemail.pl" that you can probably google - this script will allow you to bounce the email off a relay server - an actual SMTP server such as exchange.

... Just now realizing how old the original request is - too much typing to turn back now.

Last edited by omrsafetyo; Nov 6th, 2008 at 7:20 pm.