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I am trying to use Cygwin to send an e-mail from the command line. This is what I am putting in:
email -f myaddress#blah.com -s "This is a test" -b toaddress#blah.com
I get this error message:
/bin/sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
I created a folder in /usr/lib called "sendmail", and now I get this:
/bin/sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: is a directory
Can someone please give me a step-by-step on how to send an email from Cygwin? Like how to set it up and everything? I have looked everywhere and I am about ready to tear my hair out.
EDIT: Thanks for your responses guys. This is how I finally got it to work.
bash.exe -c "echo -e 'To: thepeopleimsendingitto#blah.com\nSubject: mySQL Upload\nSQL files from machines uploaded to log table successfully.' | sendmail -f me#blah.com otherpeople#blah.com"
Even though Cygwin was in my Windows path, it couldn't recognize it, so I had to run bash.exe directly and say "do this command as a Linux command". The echo is what is constructing the email itself. The \n characters separate it into "To", "Subject" and Body.
Apparently, email is a program that lets you submit an email message (a Mail Submission Agent) that relies on another program to actually send the message (a Mail Transfer Agent).
I enabled this on my Cygwin installation last week.
I am not using email but mutt, one of the alternatives Cygwin offers (see its package list).
I use mutt not only to submit the mail to be sent, but also to read it; it's a Mail User Agent (see some screenshots).
Like email, mutt relies on a Mail Transfer Agent to send mail, so I had to install one.
On Linux, popular choices are sendmail and postfix; but they do far more than you need and Cygwin doesn't offer them as packages. It does offer exim and ssmtp.
I installed the ssmtp package and ran the ssmtp-config utility. You have to make some decisions here. You must know which SMTP server you can use and whether you need any special configuration to communicate with it.
By the way, ssmtp does install an executable called sendmail, which is not the original sendmail, but behaves like it for the purposes you need it for.
Okay So i wasn't clear enough on my first attempt... I guess that is my fault, I will try to make this more clear.
In the mail-config it will ask for the sendmail binary. It should sound something like this :
Please enter the sendmail command line [/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i]:
This is basically asking where is the sendmail binary installed and what parameters should i pass it to send a mail. Your sendmail binary is either not installed, or not installed in the location you are specifying.
To see if you have sendmail installed try
%sendmail;
If that works, to find the path of that binary try
%which sendmail;
If that does not work, either sendmail is not installed, or the location of sendmail needs to be appended to the env path variable. There no correct answer on how you want to set things up, but the minimum requirments to make this work is to have sendmail on the current machine, have it configured and pass the correct absolute path to the mail program in the mail-config.
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I have created a service that is supposed to send an automated email in HTML format by using UNIX mail command. It was working correctly until yesterday when suddenly stopped sending mails.
This is the command Im running programmatically
cat ./email.txt | mail -v -s "$(echo -e "Report for Last Week
Content-Type: text/html
Reply-to: abraham#corp.com
From: abraham#corp.com")" abraham#corp.com manolo#corp.com
The output looks like:
abraham#corp.com... queued
manolo#corp.com... queued
I am not getting any email, neither my partner...
I am not even able to run
echo "test"|mail -s "This is a test" abraham#corp.com
Im running on RedHat Linux.
Just in case someone needs help. The issue was related to the sendmail service of the OS.
I had to go service sendmail restart
It was as simple as that, however, I did compare the configuration files against a clean machine to make sure they were similar.
I try to send simple mail from Haskell's Network.Mail.Mime (package mime-mail) by
renderSendMail $ simpleMail' (Address Nothing "myEMailHere")
(Address (Just "TESTER") "myEMailHere") "TEST" "TESTING"
It executes without any warnings or exceptions, but the email is not sent. However
echo "TEST" | sendmail -v "myEMailHere"
works as expected. I have tried using renderMailCustom and giving arguments to sendmail as above, but despite I got same info as sendmail's output ("Mail Delivery Status Report will be mailed to username."), I didn't receive any E-Mail.
What am I doing wrong here?
Since your sendmail is in a different location than what mime-mail is expecting, you will need to inform it of the correct location. The exact right incantation depends a little bit on how you are installing mime-mail; in the simplest case, where you are installing it with cabal install, try this:
cabal install --ghc-option -DMIME_MAIL_SENDMAIL_PATH='"'`which sendmail`'"' mime-mail
Other tools than cabal-install should have the ability to be informed of this CPP directive in a similar way.
I use logrotate that sends me logs on a regular basis. My server is a VPS running Postfix as an outgoing-only SMTP server.
I would like all the mailed logs (which Logrotate sends) to be encrypted with PGP or S/MIME. How can I do that?
I searched for logrotate mail encryption, but couldn't find any. Therefore, I'm thinking that I can pass "nomail" command in logrotate config, but then add in the "postscript" a script to first encrypt the mail and then send.
So, is there a better way to encypt logrotate mail with PGP? Or that's what I need to do? I would appreciate any advise or an example of such a script.
Also, I'm not considering to use TLS as there are possible ways to bypass it in the SMTP server. And I would rather rely on encryption of individual messages.
Thanks!
Edit:
Here is my script I'm using for custom email sending(Without GPG for now):
#!/bin/bash
read MSG
echo $MSG | mail -s $1 $2
But when I force rotate with logrotate --mail=loggpg.sh --force /etc/logrotate.d/ufw I keep getting error about uncompression, do I need to manually uncompress it? Or there is smth wrong with the script?
Error I get:
error: mail command failed for /var/log/ufw.log.5.gz
error: uncompress command failed mailing /var/log/ufw.log.5.gz`
You can execute logrotate with --mail command line option. It will allow you to use your own shell/perl/python script to send email instead of default /bin/mail -s.
man logrotate
OPTIONS
...
-m, --mail
Tells logrotate which command to use when mailing logs. This command should accept two arguments: 1) the subject of the message, and
2) the recipient. The command must then read a message on standard input and mail it to the recipient. The default mail command is
/bin/mail -s.
I wrote a shell script that I use under ash, and I redirect stderr and stdout to a log file. I would like that log file to be emailed to me only if stderr is not empty.
I tried:
exec >mylog.log 2>&1
# Perform various find commands
if [TEST_IF_STDERR_NOT_EMPTY]; then
/usr/bin/mail -s "mylog" email#mydomain.com < mylog.log
fi
My question is twofold:
1- I get a -sh: /usr/bin/mail: not found error. It seems that the mail command doesn't exist under ash (or at least under my linux box, which is a Synology NAS), what would be the alternative? Worst case, perl is available, but I would prefer to use standard sh commands.
2- How to I test that stderr is not empty?
Thanks
How to check if file is empty in bash
As for the first question, in your code you are calling mail but lower in the post you are calling email. Check your code and make sure it is mail.
Use which mail to get the full path. Maybe it is not installed in /usr/bin/.
Use find to locate mail.
If you can go to another shell, run it and then execute which mail to get the full path of mail in case the path is set up in the alternative shells.
I am trying to run MOSS on my Mac OS X and I don't know what mistake I am making. I am not sure whether I am running the command properly or not. I downloaded this file as 'moss', gave this execution permissions and tried to run following:
./moss -l python -c "Assignment 1" -d assignment1/
I got the response as
Checking files . . .
OK
Which is wrong. The assignment1 directory has 4 python scripts. Two files are exactly similar, in one I have rearranged the code and in another I have changed the variable names.
I have sent the email for registration and I have not received any reply. So I am running the code with default user ID.
I also tried running it with sending each of those python files instead of working on a directory, still I get same response.
./moss -l python -c "Assignment 1" 1.py 2.py 3.py 4.py
Steps to get going with MOSS on your Mac:
Send an email at moss#moss.stanford.edu with the mail body containing the email you want to register.
Eg:
registeruser
mail "username#domain" <-- your email
You will then get a reply containing the script that you will need to save as “moss.pl”. Just make sure that your Mac has the “perl” folder within the “/usr/bin/“ folder. Else, change the path of the perl folder on the very first line of the script to be compatible to your machine.
Now set the execute permission using the command “chmod ug+x moss.pl”. This should allow you to send your queries to the Stanford server. If you were to not execute this command then you may be denied the permission to submit any queries.
Now submit the query to the server using the command similar to the following (note the command is not restricted to a single flag (i.e. -l)….refer the comments in the script for USAGE instructions):
“./moss.pl -l python file_1.py file_2.py”
The result on submitting a query such as above would be:
Checking files . . .
OK
Uploading file_1.py ...done.
Uploading file_2.py ...done.
Query submitted. Waiting for the server's response.
http://moss.stanford.edu/results/282371307.
Just review if you have followed all the steps above. I, then, don't see you having any issues getting the results. Maybe you were facing issues bcoz you were not registered initially.
Seems one should be registered to use it, instructions weren't clear on the site. I received the email finally with userid and ran the script, this time it worked.
I think you should resend the email in the format:
registeruser
mail youremail
In the reply email you will get your ID, replace it in the script and run the moss file again. You should get the link for the result.