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Re: How to send messages via Mutt with no user intervention...?



On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:04:45AM -0700, Ubence Quevedo wrote:

> I'm trying to automatically send a e-Mail with a compressed  
> attachment via the command line.  I've gone through the motions  
> manually with the command line [mutt -s "This is a test"  
> user@xxxxxxxxxx -i file.tgz].  It works great, but I have to answer  
> questions and do some keystrokes to send the message.  I did some  
> google searches and have not been able to find anything useful [or at  
> all] on this subject.  I want to set up a cron job to e-Mail me the  
> compressed attachment every so often [every other week or monthly].

Something like this should work:

mutt -s "file attached" -a file.tgz user@xxxxxxxxxxx < /dev/null

You shouldn't need to use "push" or an alternate .muttrc to do this. If
your .muttrc is somehow interfering, you could use -F /dev/null.

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