how to send a mail with a message in unix script

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New to unix and learning the talk and walk of it. I am writing a script in .ksh and have a requirement of sending a mail with a message. Currently using this command in my script:

    mailx -s"File not found" abc@def.com

This command helps me having a subject and the recipient name. My question is how can I write a message along with it. Cause every time i run the script it pauses and asks me to enter the message and then executes, I want to pre-include the message so the script would not pause in between.

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:21

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echo 'Message body goes here' | mail -s 'subject line goes here' email@provider.com

answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:21

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:24

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Try this on the command line or inside a script:

echo "This is the message." | mailx -s "Subject" abc@def.com

You can use pre-defined messages from files:

cat message.txt | mailx -s "Subject" abc@def.com

answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:24

Christian Aigner

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The 1st one works for me, but when i receive my mail the message body has "" as trialing which doesn't get displayed in mail but when i receive it you get a preview on your taskbar right its there i can see it doesn't make a difference but was curious to know Thanks alot for the help – Rahul sawant Dec 06 '13 at 14:35

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Alternatively to mailx (mentioned in the other answers) you can also use sendmail:

cat <<EOF | sendmail -t
To: recipients-mailaddress
From: your-mailaddress
Subject: the-subject
mailtext
blabla
.
EOF

Perhaps you need to add the full path to sendmail if it's not in your path. E.g. /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail.

Update:
See also this question

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:30

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:22

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as mailx takes the body as input on stdin you can pipe the body to it:

echo "Hello World" | mailx -s"File not found" abc@def.com

Or use a here document

mailx -s"File not found" abc@def.com << END_TEXT
Hello World 
END_TEXT

answered Dec 06 '13 at 14:22

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The second looks trendy, i tried it but doesn't work for me :( – Rahul sawant Dec 06 '13 at 14:36
For the 1st command i used the following: mail_person=abc@def.com echo "test"|mailx -s"test" $mail_person now this command does mail me the message but also adds it in /var/spool/mail in unix – Rahul sawant Dec 06 '13 at 14:51

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 04 '19 at 08:38

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Define the mailcontent beforehand and do it like this:

mailx -s"File not found" abc@def.com < mailcontent

answered Apr 04 '19 at 08:38

Christine T.

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 13 '15 at 13:52

If you also want to add attachment to the you want to send. Here you go:

echo 'Type Message body' | mailx -s 'Type subject' -a path/filename.txt email@provider.com

EXAMPLE:

echo 'PFA report' | mailx -s 'Today's Report' -a `path`/report1306.txt  xyz@gmail.com

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