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mailit function

Here is a generic mail function I use with cron jobs or scripts that need to email information.
TIP: the context-type can be switched to sent html instead of plain text as well ;)


mailit ()
{
cat <<EOF | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f noreply -t
to:${sendto}
from:${from}
reply-to:${replyto}
subject: ${subject}
content-type: text/plain
${emailthis}
EOF
}


To use, set the variables first, then call the function ;) IE:


sento="someone@someemail.com"
from="sentfrom@someemail.com"
replyto="sentfrom@someemail.com"
subject="This is the email subject"
emailthis=`cat <<EOF
This is is the text
that is sent
in the body of the email.

mailit