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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to Send an email using mail command Post 302579055 by kshji on Sunday 4th of December 2011 09:17:56 AM
Old 12-04-2011
This is generic, usually works in most of *nix systems. But MTA must be configured (sendmail, postfix, exim, ...). Smart relay is usually the easiest method.
Code:
#!/usr/bin/somesh     bash,ksh,dash,...
[ $# -lt 4 ] && echo "usage:$0 From To Subject msgfile" >&2 && exit 1
From="$1"
To="$2"
Subject="$3"
MsgFile="$4"
cat <<EOF | /usr/lib/sendmail  -i -t
From: $From
To: $To
Subject : $Subject

$(cat $MsgFile)

EOF

 

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
       which search the file. Blank lines are also ignored.

       The following default shells are used by utilities: /bin/bash, /bin/csh, /bin/jsh, /bin/ksh, /bin/ksh93, /bin/pfcsh, /bin/pfksh, /bin/pfsh,
       /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
       /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list.

       Invalid shells in /etc/shells could cause unexpected behavior, such as being unable to log in by way of ftp(1).

FILES

       /etc/shells    list of shells on system

SEE ALSO

       vipw(1B), ftpd(1M), sendmail(1M), getusershell(3C), aliases(4)

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