[ale] Command to force an email

[Jeff Hubbs]

"sendmail -t" lets you put the "To:", "Cc:", and "Subj" information in the
body of the message itself and you also specify flag text (I use "XYXYX") as
an EOF marker.  Just the same, yes, the e-mail goes out immediately.  

I think what you described about sendmail -q is a right fine solution as
well and would be preferable especially if you need to specify a message
text file.  

- Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Knapka [mailto:jknapka at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 3:18 PM
> To: Jeff Hubbs
> Cc: Armsby John-G16665; 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: Re: [ale] Command to force an email
> 
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > 
> > I'm invoking sendmail -t in a script to do just that.  I 
> don't have it
> > running as a daemon.  I also am including the message text 
> in the script
> > itself although there has got to be some way to incorporate 
> a text file.
> 
> Sure, use the "mail" commands as John described, which queues the
> message for delivery. Then invoke "sendmail -q" to process the mail
> queue. (Does this work using -t as well? The sendmail docs imply
> -t does something entirely different.)
> 
> -- Joe
>  
> > - Jeff
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Armsby John-G16665 [mailto:John.Armsby at motorola.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 3:00 PM
> > > To: 'ale at ale.org'
> > > Subject: [ale] Command to force an email
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a script which sends an email.
> > >
> > > mail -s test john at myplace <message.txt
> > >
> > > I would like to force an immediate mailing as soon as the
> > > script executes.
> > > I think Linux is waiting for some time before sending the
> > > message. Isn't
> > > there a command I can invoke to push the mail out immediately?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > John
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