mail from linux prompt

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Naresh Kumar <nksharma74 at gmail.com>:

> Hi Gunnar,   Earlier I was using
> /usr/bin/mail which didn't work but /kolab/sbin/sendmail works fine
> but doesn't allow me to add "Subject" !

The subject needs to be part of the file you are piping into sendmail.  
The file could look like this for example:

Sender: someone at example.org
From: someone at example.org
To: somebody at example.org
Subject: test

test
.


> and how do I attach files to with it ?

There certainly exist command line tools that will generate a proper  
MIME mail that you can pipe into sendmail. But I have no suggestion  
here. You'd need to search for one.

I get the impression though that you expect too much from sendmail. It  
just does the mail processing. It does not help you to generate a  
mail. You pipe input into it and it delivers it. It does not care much  
for the input though.

Cheers,

Gunnar

> Regards, Naresh




>    From: Gunnar Wrobel
> <wrobel at pardus.de[1]>
> To: kolab-users at kolab.org[2]
> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:55:01 +0100
> Subject: Re: mail from linux prompt
>  Quoting Naresh Kumar < href=\"mailto:nksharma74 at gmail.com\"
onclickxsscleaned=\"return
> top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)\">nksharma74 at gmail.com>:
>
>   0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;\" class=\"gmail_quote\">I
have
> another query now. How
> can I send an email from prompt using postfix. I have written a
> script to monitor system health and kolab usage. I want to send the
> output of this script to myself via email. I could do it easily
> with
> sendmail using mail/mailx but with postfix I am missing something !

The postfix of the Kolab server provides a sendmail wrapper at
/kolab/sbin/sendmail. That one should usually works. Does it fail
somehow? Something specific in the logs if you try to use it?

Cheers,

Gunnar

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