how to send mail without human intervention?

[Joel Hammer]

I don't see my first post on this as having gotten to the list, so, again:
echo My Message | mail -s "Important Message" addressee

Joel

On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 05:23:36PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> thanks, but i don't want to have to use PHP for this.
> 
> Ken Moffat wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > got PHP?
> > 
> > <?php
> > $to = "netllama at linux-sxs.org";
> > $subject = "Alert from Page";
> > $body = "Page condition met!";
> > mail($to,$subject",$body);
> > ?>
> > 
> > 
> > bool mail ( string to, string subject, string message [, string 
> > additional_headers [, string additional_parameters]])
> > 
> 
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