Sending mail from a Bash shell script

Question

I am writing a Bash shell script for Mac that sends an email notification by opening an automator application that sends email out with the default mail account in Mail.app. The

Answer 1

Here's a modified shells script snip I've used on various UNIX systems... (echo "${MESSAGE}" | ${uuencode} ${ATTACHMENT}$basename ${ATTACHMENT}) | ${mailx} -s "${SUBJECT}" "${TO_LIST}"

uuencode and mailx are set to the executables. The other variables are from user input parsed using getopts.

This does work but I have to admit more often than not I use a simple Java program to send console emails.