Re: FreeBSD or qmail problem?

jtattcg@yahoo.com (toy) wrote in message news:<ba52408e.0306240852.193f2849@posting.google. com>...
> Hi, I used to be able to send mail through my crontab by putting in a
> 1 line statement:
> echo "test" | mail -s "testsubject" me@me.com
> But this doesn't work anymore, instead, it puts me in interactive mode
> and expects me to write the body of the message and press Control-D
> when I am done. I recently upgraded to FreeBSD 5.1 and switched from
> sendmail to qmail so I am not sure if it is a FreeBSD problem or qmail
> problem. How can I change my 1 line "script" to work
> non-interactively? The man page for mail was of no help.
> Thanks.

If you want the e-mail to have a subject and a body, I would put the
following into a file (named testfile.txt here), perhaps in your home
directory:

Subject: testsubject
test

Then put this into your crontab:
cat $HOME/testfile.txt | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject me@me.com

If you only care about receiving the email with a subject and no body,
you can simply use this:

echo "Test" | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject me@me.com

Good Luck.

BTW - the man pages for qmail-inject might help you here.