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Sfisioza
Asked: 2014-07-31 03:06:58 +0800 CST

Send mail with priority from console

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How can I send mail from the console marked with "priority high" flag?

Currently I'm using this syntax:

echo "message content" | mail -s "subject" [email protected]

I don't see any switches for this in man.

debian

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Can you use sendmail? If so:

    mymachine $ sendmail [email protected] <<EOM
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Test mail `date +"%x %H:%M"`
> Importance: high    
> X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
> X-MSMail-Priority: High
> 
> Test message
> EOM

mymachine $

    The text after > would be typed in on the newline. Of course, you could just pipe a text file:

    mymachine $ cat > message
> To: [email protected]
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Test mail `date +"%x %H:%M"`
> Importance: high
> X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
> X-MSMail-Priority: High
> 
> Test message
## CTRL+D ##

mymachine $ cat message | sendmail [email protected]
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