0
This works:
echo "yada yada" | msmtp my@mail.com
but not this:
cat yadayada.txt | msmtp my@mail.com
which delivers the email with empty content.
Why does echo work through pipe but not cat with msmtp ?
user19496
Posted 2013-08-07T21:31:51.243
Reputation: 1 205
0
msmtp seems to rely on a wellformed email message in the file being read.
Ex.
Subject: My subject line
My body text
Since I don't care about Subject etc
(I'm sending an email when a logfile is modified using incron)
tr -d ':' < yadayada.txt | msmtp my@mail.com
is a Q&D way to get the logfile content sent using msmtp.
user19496
Posted 2013-08-07T21:31:51.243
Reputation: 1 205
Is your
yadayada.txtformatted funny or have weird permissions? It works fine for me catting it out. – nerdwaller – 2013-08-07T21:52:03.487yadayada.txt has u:rw g:rw o:r and is a multiline file.
sample content: === rsync start === 2013-08-07 20:58:01 === rsync stop === 2013-08-07 21:00:50 – user19496 – 2013-08-07T21:56:59.070
this worked: tr -d ':' < yadayada.txt | msmtp my@mail.com – user19496 – 2013-08-07T22:26:03.710
':' was the culprit. thx @nerdwaller you pointed me in the right direction. – user19496 – 2013-08-07T22:27:59.857
That makes sense, since msmtp allows uses of something like
Subject: My subject line. Good catch! – nerdwaller – 2013-08-07T22:32:33.923