how to send mail without human intervention?

[Joel Hammer]

This works for me:
echo My message | mail -s Testing addressee
Joel

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:51:26PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> grrr...i hate it when i do this.  ok, i figured out a workaround 
> (although not what i'd call ideal).  I can redirect the contents of a 
> file into that mail command like so:
> mail -n -s "another test of mail" netllama at linux-sxs.org < /tmp/whatever
> 
> i just wish there was a way to just specify the body somehow.  oh well.
> 
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > I'm writing a bash script where I need to send email out depending on 
> > certain conditions within the script.
> > 
> > I'm thought that I could use 'mail' to do the job, but it seems to 
> > require human intervention to send the message out.  I'm trying:
> > mail -n -s "another test of mail" netllama at linux-sxs.org
> > 
> > yet it keeps insisting on having me type something for the body, and 
> > then hit Ctrl-D or a . at the end in order to send it.  Looking at the 
> > man page for mail there doesn't seem to be any option that lets me set 
> > the body message from the command itself.  Am i missing something 
> > obvious, or is there a better tool for the job?  thanks!
> > 
> 
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