Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 06:08:51 +0000 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Scripting problem Message-ID: <VI1PR02MB1200B33C1F59A223B84E9153F6770@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <7AB396F429EEB6890100F082@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> References: <7AB396F429EEB6890100F082@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local>
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On 10/08/17 11:29, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I'm writing a bash script to create a db backup and email it to me once
> a day. I'm munged some parts to not reveal details
>
> I'm having a problem with this line:
>
> /usr/local/bin/mutt -s $SUBJECT -i $MESSAGE -a $FILENAME --
> pschmehl@tx.rr.com < /dev/null
>
> Right before this line are these lines:
> MESSAGE="path/to/message.txt"
> ADDRESS="pschmehl@mydomain"
> SUBJECT="Today's db backup"
>
>> From the commandline this runs fine, but the script returns an error:
>
> Error sending message, child exited 67 (User unknown.).
> Could not send the message.
>
> The mail is sent, and when it's received, the subject line is Today's.
> When I look in the maillog, mutt tried to send email to db@hostname and
> backup@hostname.
>
> I changed the subject to Backup, and the error goes away.
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE and the script is written in bash.
>
> Why would mutt do this?
I do not use mutt (one of the most unfriendly Unix apps) so I cannot
comment on what is the problem here. But I would to suggest one thing to
you for CLI mail : use the port/pkg smtp-cli
Here is a working sample for mail with attachment (bundled into the bash
shell array att) :
smtp-cli \
--ipv4 \
--auth \
--server="$SMTP" \
--port=$PORT \
--user="$fromaddr" \
--pass="$password" \
--from="$fromname <$fromaddr>" \
--to="$sendto" \
--subject="$subject" \
"${att[@]}"
If this solves your problem, good luck : - )
Regards
Manish Jain
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