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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 17:40:51 -0700
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References: <slrn DOT pl DOT c9t4q3 DOT nso DOT jerzy AT solveig DOT jedwab>
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In-Reply-To: <slrn.pl.c9t4q3.nso.jerzy@solveig.jedwab>

jerzy szczudłowski wrote:

> Since mailx package is not ported to Cygwin, and from time to time
> someone miss it, I wrote short shell script that enables straight
> compatibility with some programs which by default depend on "mail"
> command (i.e. smartmontools). Since this is really simple script, it is
> very limited. In example, it emulates only batch mode (actually, you
> may type form stdin but there are no hints about headers), only few
> options are avaiable (eascb) and recipient address must come at the end
> of line (due to getopts shortcomings). But, what is actually important
> here, you can type: "cat /var/log/syslog | mail root", just like on real
> unices :)
>
> URL:
> http://jedwab.net.pl/~jerzy/shell/mail.bz2

Have you looked at ssmtp?
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