I had the same problem. Now after some reconfig I re-wrote an excisting script. This is what I re-use for each program that needs to mail something.
Hope you understand it a little, it's a cool one.
Regs David
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
# We have to invoke a mailer that has no escape possibilities...
#
# The only one I know of would be sendmail, but this is very ugly
# to invoke directly because we have no control of To: and
# Subject: lines...
#
# This wrapper writes some of the Header-Fields before forwarding the
# mail itself in the body
#
# usage: start-mail mailaddr subject
# you might want to change the following line to set a sepcific from: address
#sender=`/usr/bin/id|/usr/bin/sed 's/.*(\(.*\)) .*/\1/'`
sender='root@'`/usr/bin/hostname`
# it's a bad idea to use temporary files with predictable names that are
# located in a world-writable /tmp dir because other local users may create
# sym-links pointing to another file...
#
# better use a tmp-dir that is only accessible by the logsurfer user
# change the following line!
# example: TMP=/home/logsurfer
TMP=/tmp
recepient="$1"
subject="$2"
message="$3"
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
echo 'usage: start-mail mailaddr subject' 1>&2
exit 1
fi
/bin/rm -f $TMP/start-mail.$$
echo "From: $sender" > $TMP/start-mail.$$
echo "To: $recepient" | /usr/bin/tr -cd '[\040-\176]' >> $TMP/start-mail.$$
echo "" >> $TMP/start-mail.$$
if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
shift
echo "Subject: $subject" | /usr/bin/tr -cd '[\040-\176]' >> $TMP/start-mail.$$
echo "" >> $TMP/start-mail.$$
else
echo "Subject: (no subject given - logsurfer output)" >> $TMP/start-mail.$$
fi
echo "" >> $TMP/start-mail.$$
echo "$message" | /usr/bin/tr -cd '[\040-\176]' >>/$TMP/start-mail.$$
echo "\n." >>/$TMP/start-mail.$$
cat $TMP/start-mail.$$ - | /usr/lib/sendmail -odq -t
/bin/rm -f $TMP/start-mail.$$
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praliases
praliases(1) User Commands praliases(1)NAME
praliases - display system mail aliases
SYNOPSIS
praliases [-C configfile] [-f aliasfile] [key]
DESCRIPTION
The praliases utility displays system mail aliases. When no key is given, praliases displays the current system aliases, one per line, in
no particular order. The form is key:value. If a key is given, only that key is looked up and the appropriate key:value is displayed if
found.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-C configfile Specifies a sendmail configuration file.
-f aliasfile Reads the specified file aliasfile instead of the default sendmail system aliases file.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
key A specific alias key to look up.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful operation.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/etc/mail/aliases Default sendmail system aliases file
/etc/mail/aliases.db Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file
/etc/mail/aliases.dir Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file
/etc/mail/aliases.pag
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf Default sendmail configuration file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWsndmu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO mailq(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 29 Mar 2004 praliases(1)