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Asked: 2026-05-18T05:04:41+00:00

Trying to send mail with the following script, I substitute $1 with the email

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Trying to send mail with the following script, I substitute $1 with the email address I want to send the email to. 

#!/bin/bash
# script to send simple email
# email subject
SUBJECT="SET-EMAIL-SUBJECT"
# Email To ?
EMAIL="$1"
# Email text/message
EMAILMESSAGE="/tmp/emailmessage.txt"
echo "This is an email message test"> $EMAILMESSAGE
echo "This is email text" >>$EMAILMESSAGE
# send an email using /bin/mail
mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $EMAILMESSAGE

I have tried sending myself emails with this script, but I don’t get anything. I also don’t get an error which makes it more difficult to figure out what’s wrong. Anyone know how to send an email through a script?
I’m on a macbook pro, and my operating system is Leopard.

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  1. Editorial Team

    (worth a shot to try another method)

    cat $EMAILMESSAGE | mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL"

    But other reasons you aren’t getting the email could possibly be that, whomever /bin/mail is passing the email off to is never making it to the server. See if you have the mailq command ?

    Also, sometimes email’s generated like this look really raw without a lot of headers and often get tossed into the spam folder.

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