Sending mail from bash [Script]

The mail command can be used under Linux or UNIX bash, ksh, csh shell to send an email. To send a message to one or more people, mail can be invoked with arguments which are the names of people to whom the mail will be sent. You are then expected to type in your message, followed by an <control-D> at the beginning of a line. However, using the following syntax one can send email easily:

mail -s ‘Subject’ yourmail@test.com

Script

#!/bin/bash
# Subject
SUBJECT="EMAIL-SUBJECT"
# To
TOEMAIL="tomail@test.com"
# Message
EMAILMESSAGE="/home/user/message.txt"
echo "This is email text" >>$EMAILMESSAGE
# Sending email using /bin/mail
/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TOEMAIL" < $EMAILMESSAGE

4 Responsesto “Sending mail from bash [Script]”

1. juriad says:

   May 21, 2012 at 5:19 pm

   better is:
   
/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TOEMAIL" <<END
This is email text
END

   and you don’t need any extra file

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2. stderr says:

   May 21, 2012 at 5:34 pm

   For a quick test of mailserver, I usually use pipe.
   
echo "This is a message" | mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TOEMAIL"


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3. Murdej Ukrutny says:

   May 21, 2012 at 10:01 pm

   or this if you need send program output:

   
( echo "foooo" ; ls ; ps ) | /bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$TOEMAIL"


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4. Ash says:

   May 21, 2012 at 11:36 pm

   sendmail “$TOEMAIL” <<<"Message"

   Reply