From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 01:00:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22F716A420 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBA113C457 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l7V0xmuS092919; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:59:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20070830194613.02635658@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:59:36 -0500 To: L Goodwin , Chuck Swiger From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <551986.10942.qm@web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <551986.10942.qm@web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:00:35 -0000 At 07:01 PM 8/30/2007, 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! > >--- Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:12 PM, L Goodwin wrote: > > > I wrote a shell script that backs up the file > > server. > > > I would like to modify this script to email a > > > notification message to a public email address. > > > > Use cron, which will automatically email out the > > results of your > > script to any email address you like. > > > > > Seems like sendmail should do the job nicely, but > > I've never set it > > > up before. > > > > > > What specific steps (including network-specific) > > need > > > to be performed to get sendmail working for > > outgoing > > > mail only in a secure manner? > > > > Please see the fine Handbook: > > > > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html > > > > Although, it is entirely reasonable to consider > > using Postfix instead. > > > > -- > > -Chuck > > > > Here is a sample script that you can use as a template: ======================================================= #!/bin/sh #define any commands you will use MAILFILE=mymailfile MAILFILE2=mymailfile2 SENDTO=derek@computinginnovations.com CCTO=derek@computinginnovations.com MAIL=/usr/bin/mail AWK=/usr/bin/awk CAT=/bin/cat TR=/usr/bin/tr TEMPDIR=/tmp #make sure we have paths export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin cd $TEMPDIR $CAT /etc/passwd | $AWK -F : '{ print $5 }' > $MAILFILE $TR -cd "\012-\172" < $MAILFILE > $MAILFILE2 $MAIL -s "My list of real user names subject" $SENDTO -c $CCTO < $MAILFILE2 ======================================================= > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who >knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. >http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.