The Section Send Non-MIME Files: mhmail had an introduction to mhmail. This section shows some examples of its uses in programming.
For instance, to mail a temporary file named $temp to the user who is running your Bourne shell script ($USER), your script could execute:
mhmail $USER -subject "XXX XXX" < $temp
Be sure to use a left angle bracket (<), not a right
angle bracket (>). If the standard input (here, the
file $temp) is empty, mhmail won't send a message.
The workaround is to test the file size before
running mhmail. If the file is empty, the echo
command outputs a newline -- which is enough to make mhmail
happy:
if test -s "$temp"
then mhmail $USER -subject "XXX XXX" < $temp
else echo | mhmail $USER -subject "XXX XXX"
fi
One more "gotcha": without command-line arguments, mhmail
runs
inc.
mhmail was designed to be similar to the standard
UNIX mail command. (With no addresses, mail gets
your new mail.)
This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. It is freely available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see COPYING.
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