[ale] Command to force an email

[Jeff Hubbs]

I'm invoking sendmail -t in a script to do just that.  I don't have it
running as a daemon.  I also am including the message text in the script
itself although there has got to be some way to incorporate a text file.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armsby John-G16665 [mailto:John.Armsby at motorola.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 3:00 PM
> To: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: [ale] Command to force an email
> 
> 
> I have a script which sends an email.
> 
> mail -s test john at myplace <message.txt
> 
> I would like to force an immediate mailing as soon as the 
> script executes.
> I think Linux is waiting for some time before sending the 
> message. Isn't
> there a command I can invoke to push the mail out immediately?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
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