Re: [SLUG] Bash Assist

From: Paul Braman (aeon@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2001 - 08:42:50 EST


On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Paul M Foster wrote:

> I have a situation where, in order for sendmail to connect to my ISP's
> smarthost, I have to connect to the pop server first (don't ask). I'd
> like to put together a script that does:
>
> fetchmail -c
> sendmail ...
>
> I would be piping the mail into the script. I need a way to get the
> sendmail part of the script to suck up the stuff that's on the pipe, but
> I don't know how to make the script do this. Anyone know?

Something like this might work:

        #!/bin/sh -e
        fetchmail -c
        cat | sendmail $*
        exit 0

Paul Braman
aeon@tampabay.rr.com



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