Comments on: email from the shell

By: bradrice

bradrice — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:43:02 +0000

Correct. Thanks for point this out. My blog converts straight to curly quotes. Sorry about any inconvenience. I’ll see if I can fix that for future posts. Thanks for pointing out the error in the less than symbols not being together.

-Brad

By: Miles

Miles — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:05:20 +0000

I see that the special characters and subsequent text were stripped from my post. I’ll try again:

( cat < < EOF
should be:
( cat << EOF
That is, there should be no space between the < symbols.

Also, the curly quotes on the sendmail and recipient lines should be changed to straight quotes.

By: Shawn Holwegner

Shawn Holwegner — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:38:25 +0000

A more apropos solution is to use the ‘mail’ command; sendmail -t is much like crafting your own tools when any standard screwdriver will do.

A comparable syntax to your note above is: echo stuff | mail -s ’subject here’ user@domain.biz.

As with your prior article, handling mail can become amazingly complex and archaic at times. For PHP, I’d strongly sugggest a prerolled solution such as PHPMailer - so you don’t have to contend wuith the multitude of problems which come with multipart, mime, attachments, et al.

A quick little hack that I used years ago to automatically send attachments from the command line (via crontab) was to install the mailer ‘mutt’ on the system, then ‘mutt user@where.org -s ‘Attachment for $DATE’ -a attachfile