RE: command to send mail

["Patrick Kirchner" <obecalp@ameritech.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Gaumer [mailto:gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu] 
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:05 PM
> To: Debian User List
> Subject: RE: command to send mail
> Patrick Kirchner wrote:
> > I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I've always done this:
> > mutt -s SubjectHere -a /path/to/attachment someone@somewhere.com < 
> > /dev/null
> > It's nice because the e-mail just goes with the attachment and no 
> > further prompts are needed, but how does the "email_body" fit into 
> > this?
> > If I try Eric's example I'm told:
> > -bash: email_body: No such file or directory
> email_body is the text of the email you want to send (outside 
> the attachment). 
> The redirection operator ( < ) tells bash to use that text as 
> STDIN to mutt.
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> Eric Gaumer
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Now I get it, so if I have the file "email_body" with the text
in it, I don't need the "</dev/null" bit.

Thanks much,

Patrick.