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



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

The above worked perfectly!  Thank you SO much!

-Ubence

--- Will Yardley <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> w
> 
>