Re: sendmail
Re: sendmail
- Subject: Re: sendmail
- From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 07:45:38 -0600
On 2/2/03 5:35 PM, "Andrew Oliver" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Assuming you just want to send plain text and not attachments (which gets
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into all kinds of issues with MIME encoding, etc.), the following will work,
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assuming sendmail (or another MTA) is running on your machine.
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It pipes the contents of a file to the named recipient. I couldn't find a
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way of passing the message contents in the command line, but it's a simple
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matter to write the message to disk, mail it, then delete the temp file.
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do shell script "mail -s \"subject goes here\" email@hidden <
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/path/to/message"
That looks like a good start. Now, UNIX is not supposed to care whether
input is from a file or from the keyboard, so it should be possible to
provide it via AppleScript as well....
Michael
--
"Today, with one sad, solitary exception, every nation in our hemisphere has
an elected government."
- George W. Bush at the Council of the Americas, May 7, 2001
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