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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with writing simple bash script Post 302397237 by methyl on Sunday 21st of February 2010 03:20:38 PM
Old 02-21-2010
I may not be able to give the final answer but "jgt" has given the key to the solution and I may be able to help others by asking questions.

Please state what Operating System you have and what mail client you are running?

Can you send a mail by using say "mail" or "mailx" from the command line? If so, what do you type? In general if you can type it at the command line, it can be scripted.
 

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SUP-CMD(1)						      General Commands Manual							SUP-CMD(1)

NAME

       sup-cmd - connect to a running sup-server

SYNOPSIS

       sup-cmd [global options] command [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Connect to a running sup-server and execute command.

       Valid commands are:

	      query count label add

OPTIONS

       --archive, -a
	      Automatically archive all new messages from these sources.

       --unusual, -u
	      Do not automatically poll these sources for new messages.

       --labels, -l label
	      A comma-separated set of labels to apply to all messages from this source

       --force-new, -f
	      Create a new account for this source, even if one already exists.

       --force-account, -o account
	      Reuse previously defined account user@hostname

       --version, -v
	      Print version and exit

       --help, -h
	      Show help message

SEE ALSO

       sup-mail(1), sup-server(1)

AUTHOR

       Sup was written by William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>.

       This manual page was written by Per Andersson <avtobiff@gmail.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   April 9, 2012							SUP-CMD(1)
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