Send output of command via email with sendmail [Fixes

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===== Send output of command via email with sendmail =====

This guide shows how to configure a script to send it's output via email.
Thereby that the ''MAILTO='' setting in crontabs is global, it's not that easy to send an email to a different address from another crontab files. This function/script can be used to send the output of a crontab to a different address:

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<code bash>
#!/bin/bash
RECIPIENT=user@example.com

SCRIPT_DIR=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )
SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename "$0")
SENDER=root@$(/bin/hostname)

crontab () {
	echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
        echo "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"UTF-8\""
        echo "From: $SENDER"
        echo "Subject: <$SENDER> $SCRIPT_DIR/$SCRIPT_NAME "
        echo "To: $RECIPIENT"

	# Commands to be run here

        echo ""
        echo "Script location: $SCRIPT_DIR/$SCRIPT_NAME"
}

crontab | sendmail -t $RECIPIENT
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