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I m new to bash scripting.

I have this command line to send an email with sstmp from the terminal:

{
    echo To: user@gmail.com
    echo From: user@gmail.com
    echo Subject: "[Alert]"
echo 'McDonalds now offers vegan burgers and vegan ice cream!'
} | ssmtp user@gmail.com

I would like to execute this in a bash script. Can someone tell me how this is best done?

Thanks!

Daniel Baeriswyl
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I've read other articles here on stackoverflow. The Control-D is actually the keystroke for end of file (EOF). I've written a bash script that sends using SSMTP. Give this a try:

SUBJECT="TEST TEST TEST"
CONTENTS="This is an email!"

/usr/sbin/ssmtp -t << EOF
To: recipient@xxx.xxx
From: sender@xxx.xxx
Subject: $SUBJECT

$CONTENTS

Cheers,
Me
EOF

The -t in SSMTP parses the email and if it finds a valid To:, CC: or Bcc: then it uses those addresses. Just make certain you have your ssmtp config good to go before going this far. Likewise, your ssmtp executable may be located in a different place, adjust accordingly.

P Banish
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