Re: sending a mail message to a new user when account has been created
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 18:42, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>
> Dear People,
>
> I'm adminstering a small Debian system and I want to know how to
> automatically send new users a README in the form of an email when their
> account has been created. What would be an elegant way of doing this? I
> did a perfunctory search for this in Google but didn't come up with
> anything. I can think of some not very elegant methods, but I'm sure this
> has come up before, so there must be a good way of handling it.
In your account creation script:
cat README | mail -e -s "Subject of your message" new_user@address
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness; That the man of God
may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good
works." II Timothy 3:16,17
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