script to send email

[emmons]

do you know how I could write a script to email someone when an event occurs?

 

[pupu]

What kind of event do you mean?

The command for sending mail is 'mail' ;-)

 

[napoleao]

you can create a simple shell script to do that.
Just use vi and create a file, inside the file you will put the necessary proccesses, when the event occurs "mail admin@admin"

 

[emmons]

/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t < $1

$1 is the text file I use. As I am the one who creates the text file, I can put the following in:

From: Pen Name <Stoke@slightlysillyaddress.com>
To: Stoke <Stoke@sillyemailaddress.com>
Subject: Email Success!

Message goes in here.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I found this on the internet and tried it and it worked. Now the event is to figure out how much disk space each user is using and when it reaches a certain limit to mail a message that says to please erase some messages.

I am just getting started trying to figure it out. I would have to use a variable name for the user so the above approach may not work so well.

I use qmail if that matters.