Sending mail from a Bash shell script

Question

I am writing a Bash shell script for Mac that sends an email notification by opening an automator application that sends email out with the default mail account in Mail.app. The

Answer 1

Here is a simple Ruby script to do this. Ruby ships on the Mac OS X versions you mentioned.

Replace all the bits marked 'replace'. If it fails, it returns a non-zero exit code and a Ruby back trace.

require 'net/smtp'

SMTPHOST = 'replace.yoursmtpserver.example.com'
FROM = '"Your Email" '

def send(to, subject, message)
  body = <

You can embed this in a Bash script like so:

ruby << EOF
 ... script here ...
EOF

For some other ways to send Ruby emails, see Stack Overflow question How do I send mail from a Ruby program?.

You can use other languages that ship with Mac OS X as well:

• How do I send email with Perl?
• Sending HTML email using Python