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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Using sendmail utility in K Shell script Post 302431305 by sdiptanil on Monday 21st of June 2010 12:08:01 PM
Old 06-21-2010
Using sendmail utility in K Shell script

Hi,
I am new to shell scripting and thus any help will be highly appreciated. I need to write a K shell script where in the email sending feature should be handled by sendmail utility and I have come up with the following :

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "This is a test mailest mail" | /usr/lib/sendmail -f abc.xyz@family.org xyz.abc@family.org

However, I need to alter the shell so that it can take the From field, To field and any file attachment as parameter.
Can anyone kindly help ?

Thanks a lot in advance....

Last edited by pludi; 06-22-2010 at 01:40 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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SMRSH(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  SMRSH(8)

NAME
smrsh - restricted shell for sendmail SYNOPSIS
smrsh -c command DESCRIPTION
The smrsh program is intended as a replacement for sh for use in the ``prog'' mailer in sendmail(8) configuration files. It sharply limits the commands that can be run using the ``|program'' syntax of sendmail in order to improve the over all security of your system. Briefly, even if a ``bad guy'' can get sendmail to run a program without going through an alias or forward file, smrsh limits the set of programs that he or she can execute. Briefly, smrsh limits programs to be in a single directory, by default /etc/smrsh, allowing the system administrator to choose the set of acceptable commands, and to the shell builtin commands ``exec'', ``exit'', and ``echo''. It also rejects any commands with the characters ``', `<', `>', `;', `$', `(', `)', ` ' (carriage return), or ` ' (newline) on the command line to prevent ``end run'' attacks. It allows ``||'' and ``&&'' to enable commands like: ``"|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f- /etc/procmailrcs/user || exit 75"'' Initial pathnames on programs are stripped, so forwarding to ``/usr/ucb/vacation'', ``/usr/bin/vacation'', ``/home/server/mydir/bin/vaca- tion'', and ``vacation'' all actually forward to ``/etc/smrsh/vacation''. System administrators should be conservative about populating the /etc/smrsh directory. Reasonable additions are vacation(1), procmail(1), and the like. No matter how brow-beaten you may be, never include any shell or shell-like program (such as perl(1)) in the /etc/smrsh directory. Note that this does not restrict the use of shell or perl scripts in the sm.bin directory (using the ``#!'' syntax); it simply disallows execution of arbitrary programs. FILES
/etc/smrsh - directory for restricted programs SEE ALSO
sendmail(8) $Date: 2002/04/25 13:33:40 $ SMRSH(8)
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