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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting email to group-id is failing to receive Post 302329643 by kshji on Monday 29th of June 2009 06:04:10 AM
Old 06-29-2009
You can use sendmail client to send mail. Only need to look where is your sendmail.
Using sendmail give more ... here is example to use sendmail. In this example you can put many emails on same line using , delimeter or put every email in the own line = better, everyone get individual mail.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
MessageFile="xxx.txt"
SM="/usr/lib/sendmail -t -i"
Sender="my.address.what.ever@some.subdomain.company.domain"
Subject="Something"
BackupMailBox="someaddress@some.domain"
Timestamp=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
message="Hello world"

for To in $(cat $HOME/email.txt)
do
$SM <<EOF
To: <$To>
Bcc: <$BackupMailBox>
From: <$Sender>
Subject: $Subject $Timestamp

$Timestamp

$message

$(cat $MessageFile 2>/dev/null)

EOF
done

 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

sensible-mda

SENSIBLE-MDA(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   SENSIBLE-MDA(8)

NAME

       sensible-mda - a generic local MDA router for Debian systems

SYNOPSIS

       sensible-mda from to detail client-addr

DESCRIPTION

       sensible-mda  is used to simplify the installation and configuration of sendmail(8) , or other MTAs for use on Debian systems.  With sensi-
       ble-mda, sendmail can support a plethora of MDAs (procmail, maildrop, deliver, etc.) without having  pick any one of them as required.

FUNCTION

       sensible-mda is called by sendmail as a local mailer when the following exists in sendmail.mc:
       define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `sensible-mda $g $u $h ${client_addr}')dnl

       sensible-mda will look for the following MDAs (in this order), and pass the mail on to the first SUID MDA found (Or first found MDA, if run
       w/euid=root): procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8)

OPTIONS

       Available command line options are the following:

       from   The sender of this email (sendmail $g variable)

       to     The recipient of this email (sendmail $u variable)

       detail The detail portion of the recipient userid (sendmail $h variable) - ie:
	      cowboy+sendmail@debian.org

       client-addr
	      TCP/IP address of the sender (sendmail ${client_addr} variable) Not used (for the nonce)

FILES

       /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
	      sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
	      actual sendmail configuration file (treated as a binary file)

SEE ALSO

       sendmail(8), procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8)

BUGS

       None known so far.

AUTHOR

       Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>

HISTORY

4th Berkeley Distribution					  October 21 1999						   SENSIBLE-MDA(8)
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