[DaveNinja]

How cn i send mail from the unix prompt? I have a Perl program that i would like to have send a text message (via and email) to my cell phone. if i type 'mail me@myaddress.com' and put somethign in the subject and body and send it, i never recieve it.

daveninja.com

[gioele]

Originally posted by DaveNinja:
How cn i send mail from the unix prompt?

Code:
cat << *eof
this it the text of the mail...
You can have as many lines as you like
*eof | mail name@site.com

[DaveNinja]

I still dont get the email that was sent.
its like the 'mail' function isnt sending the mail out of the computer

daveninja

[Mactoid]

Are you sure sendmail is running at all? OS X is not setup by default to be able to send mail like that.

[DaveNinja]

sendmail not running is the problem. How do i start sendmail running?

daveinja

[DaveNinja]

I got sendmail running. i cant get the mail to leave my computer though.

[Mactoid]

Do you mean that if you send a message to your local account it works?

Try checking for error messages in /var/log/mail.log, and in /var/tmp/console.log

[Camelot]

Originally posted by DaveNinja:
I got sendmail running. i cant get the mail to leave my computer though.

... and your mail logs say what, exactly?

[Mithras]

Make sure you've opened port 25 in your firewall and/or router.

For anyone joining late, this guide:
Configuring Sendmail on Jaguar at the O'Reilly DevCenter
was perfect for getting Sendmail up and running in 10.2

[Zim]

Originally posted by DaveNinja:
How cn i send mail from the unix prompt? I have a Perl program that i would like to have send a text message (via and email) to my cell phone. if i type 'mail me@myaddress.com' and put somethign in the subject and body and send it, i never recieve it.

daveninja.com

If you are doing this in perl, I have had good success with MIME::Lite

Code:
use MIME::Lite;

my $msg = new MIME::Lite
            From     => $from,
            To       => $to,
            Cc       => $optional,
            Subject  => "Whatever",
            Type     => 'TEXT',
            Data     => "$string";
        $msg->send;

You can even tell it to use a different smtp server (like your normal ISP server) (do a perldoc MIME::Lite for the info)

HTH,
Mike