OS and Software > All Things Unix > 'find' and 'sendmail'

reply to DprssdIsntFn

Re: 'find' and 'sendmail'

Thanx for the responses so far. To answer some of the questions:

These are regular files.

Here are some sample attempts and corresponding results:

1} This example works:

test.em
 
#!/bin/sh
sendmail -t <emails/new/test4
exit
 

# ./test.em
#
 

automaild
 
#!/bin/sh
 
#
#       Create the list of emails to be processed
#
echo 'create list of emails'
find emails/new/ -type f -print > email.list
cat email.list
echo ' '
 
#
#       Create the arguments to be processed by sendmail
#
echo 'create sendmail arguments'
sed 's/ema/\<ema/' email.list > email.send
#sed 's/ema/\sendmail -t <ema/' email.list > email.send
cat email.send
echo ' '
 
#
#       Send the email
#
echo 'send email'
#cat email.send | xargs -p -l sendmail -t
cat email.send | ( xargs -p -l sendmail -t )
#cat email.send | xargs -p -l
#cat email.send | exec {}  \;
echo ' '
 
#
#       Create the arguments to be processed by mv
#
echo 'create mv arguments'
sed 's/\([^ ][^ ]*\)/\1 \1/' email.list > email.temp1
echo ' '
sed 's/new/sent/g' email.temp1 > email.temp2
echo ' '
sed 's/sent/new/' email.temp2 > email.mv
cat email.mv
echo ' '
 
#
#       Move the email to the sent directory
#
#cat email.mv | xargs -l mv
 

# ./automaild
create list of emails
emails/new/test1
emails/new/test2
emails/new/test3
emails/new/test4
 
create sendmail arguments
sendmail -t <emails/new/test1
sendmail -t <emails/new/test2
sendmail -t <emails/new/test3
sendmail -t <emails/new/test4
 
send email
sendmail -t <emails/new/test1 ?...
sendmail -t <emails/new/test2 ?...
sendmail -t <emails/new/test3 ?...
sendmail -t <emails/new/test4 ?...
 
create mv arguments
 
emails/new/test1 emails/sent/test1
emails/new/test2 emails/sent/test2
emails/new/test3 emails/sent/test3
emails/new/test4 emails/sent/test4
 
#
 

send email
sendmail -t <emails/new/test1 ?...y
<emails/new/test1... Unbalanced '<'
<emails/new/test1... User unknown
Saving message in dead.letter
dead.letter: line 0: <emails/new/test1... Unbalanced '<'
dead.letter: line 0: <emails/new/test1... Unbalanced '<'
 

Why not use mailx instead of trying to figure out sendmail?