Re: [help-gnubatch] HOWTO configure gnubatch to send email

[John Collins (Xi Software Ltd)]

On 18/05/13 06:55, andrew warshaver wrote:

IIRC, an email goes out by default to the username that created the job, using the default domain on the host machine.  You can also change this behavior if you wish:

Add this line to your /usr/local/etc/gnubatch.conf 
MAILER:/usr/local/bin/my-gbch-mailer

Where you write the script my-gbch-mailer, I believe the first line of input will be the job name, and then the text will follow.  You can just log it to disk here or w/e else you prefer.

Andrew

Here is an example of a very simple script so that the mail headers look sensible - I'll put it in the manuals which I am just in the process of converting to Latex (and correcting a gazillion errors as I go).

As above but with "my-gbch-mailer" the following script:

#! /bin/sh

(echo To: $1
cat)|/usr/lib/sendmail -t

Don't forget you can handle mails differently for each user by having MAILER=/my/own/private/mail/script in ~/.gnubatch but the version I'll be creating when I've finished hacking the manuals will also use ~/.gbch/gnubatch1 everywhere so you don't read ~/.gnubatch twice if you run things from the home directory. If you go to the repository it does it now. (It still looks at the old files if they're there).

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