command line mail in chroot

[SeanieR]

Is there any way for a client to use command line mail in a script.
Client has ssh access via chromed environment.

Wants their script to be able to send an email on completion.

Any suggestions on how to achieve this?
plesk 12 on Centos6.6

thanks
Seanie

 

[jorge ceballos]

Don't know specifically through command line, but a workaround could be create a user, load the script and set crono to run it throught plesk's control panel - using this new user - where an email can be sent every time the script is run.

Regards

 

[abdi]

Of-course it's possible!!!
The basic PHP mail function still works through SHELL + you have SendMail + They can also use SMTP ..

 

[SeanieR]

Of-course it's possible!!!
The basic PHP mail function still works through SHELL + you have SendMail + They can also use SMTP ..

Hi Abdi

Can you help a bit more please on this?
To give more details from my end, the client has created a bash script to parse a log file, lookup a record and then send off a custom email to a user. They are not using php, so don't think i can suggest that to them, unless its a last option.
They want to be able to use something like this in the bash script:
mail -s 'test subject' -r '[email protected]' [email protected] < msgfile.txt

When you say they have sendmail, what do you mean here? Sendmail is not available in a chroot env. And how can they use SMTP?

Thanks for the help.
Seanie

 

[abdi]

Try sendEmail:
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/
It also allows you to specify an SMTP server and port using the -s flag. TLS can be enabled using -o tls=yes and a username and password can be set using -o username=... and -o password=... respectively.

Others:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9998710/can-it-possible-to-send-mails-by-bash-script-via-smtp
http://tecadmin.net/send-email-smtp-server-linux-command-line-ssmtp/

 

[SeanieR]

hi
Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, sendemail will not work as it needs perl :
bash: ./sendEmail: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I will check out the other suggestions.

Is there any way to add command line mail via the chroot_update.sh script?

thanks

 

[SeanieR]

for anyone finding this forum, the answer is here http://kb.odin.com/115889
Allows you to set a server pref so that cron jobs run with access to commands outside the chrooted env.