Sending mail without message body

[gordenlopes]

Hi ,

I am trying to send a mail which has no body but only subject line using the mutt and mail commands but command does not execute properly.

mutt -s "test mail" glopes@clemson.edu

I am able to send a mail with a body by using
mutt -s "test mail" glopes@clemson.edu < body.txt

Kindly help me

[vsemaska]

Try this:

mutt -s "test mail" glopes@clemson.edu << EOT
EOT

[gordenlopes]

hey vsemaska ,

thank you for your reply.
The command works fine when executed at command line but I am using the mutt command in a script and the script gives me the followin error now

./try_prj2.sh: syntax error at line 40: `end of file' unexpected

The code is given below

#!/bin/sh

## The entries of syslog are stored in storelogs
storelogs=/var/log/syslog

badUser=student

## temp file
temporary=/tmp/temp1
echo $badUser

#Taking the entry student and sending it to the temp file
grep $badUser dumpFile.txt > /dev/null


##echo "before 1st if"

if [ $? -eq 0 ];then

echo $badUser > /tmp/temp1

grep -s $badUser /var/preserve/glopes/glopes.txt > /dev/null

if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
echo "No mail"
exit 2
fi

## if the name does not exist then send a mail and add the name to a file
mutt -s "test mail" glopes@clemson.edu << EOT EOT
grep $badUser $temporary > /var/preserve/glopes.txt

# deleting thee temporay files generated
rm $temporary
fi

[vsemaska]

This:

mutt -s "test mail" glopes@clemson.edu << EOT EOT

should be this:

mutt -s "test mail" glopes@clemson.edu << EOT
EOT

The 2nd EOT has to be on a line of its own. The '<< EOT' means input are the lines that follow until 'EOT' is reached.

[gordenlopes]

Thank you vsemaska!

It worked!