how to send mail without human intervention?

[Net Llama!]

excellent, perfect!  i don't know why that didn't work for me before. 
thanks!

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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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