Send mail via shell script

**ramadeviirrigireddy** · Dec 3 '07, 09:12 AM

Originally posted by krik

Hello,

I would like to send a mail via a script with customized From field or at least with Reply-To. This email is sent by a monitoring server via a cron job and the users should see this mail as coming from the group mailbox I belong to.

I haven't been able to find how to send a mail with a different address in the From but from the command line I can change the Reply-to (better than nothing). If I use the same in a script it doesn't work... Here is what I did :

Code:

myserver> mail -s 'test mail' destination@test.org
~R reply.here@test.org
content of the message
.
EOT

This works fine, the reply-to is correctly set. Now, the script I wrote :

Code:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash
cat << EOF | mail -s 'test mail' [email]destination@test.org[/email]
~R [email]reply.here@test.org[/email]
content of the message
EOF

With this script I receive the mail with the ~R line in the body and the reply-to is not set...

Any idea why this behaviour? Any idea how to set the from field?

Thanks,
Krik

Use mailx command. Example:
mailx -s "Subject" mail-id's to send < file.txt

**rhXX** · Jul 22 '08, 03:39 PM

try option -I

Code:

      #!/usr/local/bin/bash
      mail -I -s 'test mail' toto@toto.com <<EOF
      ~R toto1@toto.com
      content of the message
      EOF

question:

does tilde escape ~R exist?????

i didn't find it, and my mail / mailx doesn't recognize it ?????

i would appreciate your comments

Send mail via shell script

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