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Hey Shanenin,

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

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I personally have never used mail or sendmail.
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Originally Posted by leoman View Post
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

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Originally Posted by YUPAPA View Post
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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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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  1. (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.

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I would like to send mail to myself using a for loop.
Like I would like to send email to myself 100 times with a bash shell script. I use to have a script that does this, but I seem to have lost it.
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I would like to send mail to myself using a for loop.
Like I would like to send email to myself 100 times with a bash shell script. I use to have a script that does this, but I seem to have lost it.
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I am trying to write a shell script that evaluates the size of each user's home directory and if it is greater than 50 MB I want an email to be sent to their user account telling them that they need to reduce the size of their home directory.

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