On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 04:21:02AM +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I have a user w/o a shell that runs an app as a daemon that needs to use > mutt to email an attachment from a script. > > During testing when the app was ran as root everything worked:) Now that > we obviously are running as a user w/o a shell this little bit broke. I > used mutt as I needed to send the attachment as mime, and the ability > to specify a muttrc from the cli when executed was useful so we could tweak > the mail headers etc... > > Since there is no local mb's at all on this server, are there any mutt gurus > that know off hand how I can manipulate the behavior of mutt to simply send > w/o looking for a mailbox? How do you call mutt? Couldn't you precreate a muttrc file and then just include its path in however you make your call to mutt? Regardless, seems like you'd be better off using a Python or PHP script to send your email.... Ray