Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

[Chuck Swiger]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 5:01 PM, L Goodwin wrote:
> Chuck, I'd prefer to have the script handle the
> mailing  so I can test the script (with email send)
> manually, independent of cron.
>
> Still looking for specifics on setting this up and a
> bourne shell script example that sends an email.
> Thanks!

I just ran this:

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#! /bin/sh

SENDMAIL=/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail

rm -f /tmp/$$.msg
touch /tmp/$$.msg
echo 'From: Chuck <cswiger at mac.com>' >> /tmp/$$.msg
echo 'To: xrayv19 at yahoo.com' >> /tmp/$$.msg
echo 'Subject: test message via a shell script' >> /tmp/$$.msg
echo >> /tmp/$$.msg
echo 'A test message body.' >> /tmp/$$.msg
echo >> /tmp/$$.msg
cat mailout.sh >> /tmp/$$.msg
echo >> /tmp/$$.msg
echo '-- ' >> /tmp/$$.msg
echo '-Chuck' >> /tmp/$$.msg

$SENDMAIL -i -t < /tmp/$$.msg
rm /tmp/$$.msg

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If we're lucky, you just got emailed the content of the script  
above.  :-)

-- 
-Chuck