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Subject:	Re: Cygwin Mail and Exchange Server
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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2008 09:38:09 -0400
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On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 12:04 +0000, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> at a customer's site, I would like to be able to send email from
> bash scripts. The setup of the software is pretty standard: Usually
> mail is sent and read using Outlook, and there is an Exchange server
> lurking somewhere to do the job. What do I have to do in such an
> environment in order to be able to send mail from cygwin?
> 
> I thought this is such a common setup that there must be somewhere a
> "howto" for this subject, but I searched the Cygwin FAQ, the Cygwin 
> User Guide, and /usr/doc/cygwin without success. Isn't there a Cygwin
> utility which simply uses the settings in Outlook to send the mail?
> 

These types of things can be done from scripts

rthompso AT raker ~ $ cat ./testmail.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo "this is a script email test" | mutt -x -s testscript user AT domain DOT com

cat "testfile" | mutt -x -s testscript user AT domain DOT com



etc, etc


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