Bash script - sending email

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I'm trying to send an email from a bash script but when I run the script it completes without any errors but the email doesn't seem to be sending (it doesn't arrive in my inbox at least)

SUBJECT="SET-EMAIL-SUBJECT"
EMAIL="[email protected]"
EMAILMESSAGE="/home/me/workspace/ss/UI/UI/legacy/Output.txt"
echo "This is an email message test">$EMAILMESSAGE
echo "This is a second line">>$EMAILMESSAGE
echo "This is a third line">>$EMAILMESSAGE
# send an email using /bin/mail
`/bin/mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $EMAILMESSAGE`

Thanks

And sending email by mail command manually works? Are you positively running a MTA, such as exim4, postfix or sendmail - and is it correctly configured? — Kimvais
– Kimvais, Commented Feb 10, 2012 at 9:55
Try to send mail to local user like root or your username. Then run the mail command as this user. This will allow you to check if local delivery works even if sending mail to the internet is not setup correctly. I've not tested it but your script looks okay. — Daniel Böhmer
– Daniel Böhmer, Commented Feb 10, 2012 at 10:19
Thanks for the help guys, turns out we're not allowed to send mail from the server anymore as it resulted is us being black listed a couple of times, making this irrelevant — Colin747
– Colin747, Commented Feb 10, 2012 at 10:40

glenn jackman · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-10 14:51:13Z

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Aside from the limitation that what you're trying to do has been blocked, your error is the backticks on the last line of your script. /bin/mail is a command just like echo. What you're trying to do is to execute the mail command and then execute the output of the mail command.

answered Feb 10, 2012 at 14:51

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ghoti · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-31 04:15:13Z

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I created a function which I used in a script. You may vary it as you wish.

send_mail(){
     printf "<what you want to say>  %s <what you want to say>  %d \n" <another function> <another function>| ${MAIL} -s "${SBJCT}" ${EMAIL}
}

Where:

MAIL=`which mail`

edited Aug 31, 2012 at 4:15

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answered Aug 30, 2012 at 17:37

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