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ruach
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 Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject: trouble sending mail from the command line [solved] |
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Greetings,
I am trying to send mail from the command line like this:
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# echo 'test' |mail -s 'testing' user@someaddress
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# echo 'test' |ssmtp user@someaddress
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Either way it doesn't work. The first command gives the error "sh: line 1: sendmail:/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory" the second command sends the email, but both the subject and body are blank. I have tried a number of other invocations but none have worked. I need to be able to do this as a oneliner so I can send email from scripts. Does any one know how to get this to work with ssmtp? I really don't want to have to instll qmail or postfix just to send emails.
Thanks
-Matthew
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mentok
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I have /usr/sbin/sendmail as a link to /usr/sbin/ssmtp and mail works fine.
Maybe try reemerging ssmtp and see if it creates a link, if not, create it manually.
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emerge mailx
echo 'test' | mail -s "Subject" me@someplace.com
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