> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me how to write a cgi script to send emails.
> I've seen examples using "sendmail" but it doesn't seem to work. Is
> "sendmail" available or is there another program that I should be using?
It really depends on what you're attempting to do. You can send mail from
netscape from a page by adding a mailto: tag in your html:
<a href="mailto:someone@nospam.somewhere.com">Mail me!</a>
Otherwise you'd be passing variables to a script which then parses them
and sends them on to a mail program (like sendmail or mail). From command
line you can send email using something like:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Stuff I want to send" > mailfile
echo "to someone" >> mailfile
echo "from a file" >> mailfile
cat mailfile | mail someone@nospam.somewhere.com
Read the manual page for flags for the subject line etc
man mail
or you could use sendmail. I can't remember the flags offhand. I'd just
be checking the manual page anyway.
man sendmail
sendmail is available on most unix boxes, and is available on ftoomsh as
far as I know.
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