format for manually constructing outgoing email text file

[Jason Dixon]

On Jun 9, 2004, at 6:21 PM, Chris W. Parker wrote:

> Tobias Speckbacher <mailto:tobias at quova.com>
>     on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:15 PM said:
>
>> Another option is to just use the mail command.
>>
>> cat message.txt | mail -s 'subject here' recipient at domain.com
>
> not a bad idea but with the way i'm planning things* it would be much
> easier to be able to point mail or sendmail at a directory and say
> (figuratively speaking) "get to work" and have them start sending the
> messages.

With the little information you're providing, that makes no sense.  
You're attempting to reinvent the wheel- once you submit a mail to the 
local MTA (sendmail or otherwise), it gets spooled and delivered when 
the system can handle it (usually immediately).  What makes you think 
that you'd be better served by inventing your own delivery/scheduling 
mechanism?

If you really think you're doing something off-the-wall here (it's 
possible), you should describe your problem, not your efforts to solve 
it.  That way, the folks with relevant experience would be better able 
to evaluate your scenario and provide appropriate advice.

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Jason Dixon, RHCE
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