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From: Martin Peikert <news-list.netbsd.tech-security@innominate.de>
Reply-To: Martin Peikert <martin.peikert@innominate.de>
Subject: Re: mailing notifications automatically
Date: 6 Sep 2000 14:40:36 GMT
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Tony Hernadez <tony@cne-inc.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to run a mail command that will email me a message
> automatically... I'm not sure how to use the mail command without manually
> typing in the message and hitting CTRL+D. anyone done something like this ?

Hi Tony,

   cat the_file_you_want_to_mail | mail user@host -s "your subject"
where the body will be the_file_you_want_to_mail or
   echo | mail user@host -s "your subject"
with an empty body should meet your needs.

Bye, Martin
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martin.peikert@innominate.de
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