As mailx is not part of the Cygwin distribution, you don't have that many choices if you want to send an email from a shell script. In this regard, Jeremy Reed has kindly provided a nice substitute script that can help us out:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00635.html
If you have Cygwin installed, you'll need to do the following things:
1) install ssmtp
2) configure ssmtp with ssmtp-config
3) install Jeremy's mailx shell programs
There are a couple of gotchas with step 2 above.
1) make sure you have the directory /etc/ssmtp created
- for some reason, the ssmtp-config program doesn't create it
2) make sure you define a fully qualified hostname
- if not, you'll get the following error
$ /usr/bin/mailx -s "test" cacasododom@gmail.com < test.txt
3) make sure that you have a symbolic link created for /usr/sbin/sendmail that links to /usr/sbin/ssmtp and that /usr/sbin is in your PATH. Otherwise, you'll get this error:
$ mailx.sh -s "test" joe.user@yahoo.com < test.txt
That's it.
I preferred to use Jeremy's program over nail, because it gives me the same arguments as mailx did.
Thanks Jeremy!
TAG
2 comments:
Does anyone know of a way to install the fdisk linux utility into Cygwin as it is not included in the installation setup?
Mike,
According to these threads from the Cygwin mailing list:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg01050.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg01096.html
it seems that for specific technical reasons, Cygwin does not port fdisk, essentially because it works at a lower level in the OS than the Cygwin toolset.
Methinks you're out of luck,
'sodo
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