Re: Trigger sending an eMail

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 06:09:58PM -0300, Tulio Oliveira wrote:
> How is the best form of a trigger send an email ?
>
> I'll need make the trigger in C or the plpgsql has any mail function ?

#if !defined(_PATH_SENDMAIL)
# define _PATH_SENDMAIL "/usr/lib/sendmail"
#endif /*SENDMAIL*/
#define MAILCMD _PATH_SENDMAIL
#define MAILARGS "%s -Fpostgres -oem -t"

/* send notification e-mail
 */
static int sendmail(char * mailto, char * subject, char * mess) {

    register FILE *mail;
    char * mailcmd;

    asprintf(&mailcmd, MAILARGS, MAILCMD);
    if (!(mail = popen(mailcmd, "w"))) {
        elog(ERROR, "Couldn't run command %s", MAILCMD);
        (void) _exit(ERROR_EXIT);
    }
    free(mailcmd);
    fprintf(mail, "From: Apartia Auction Daemon <root@apartia.com>\n");
    fprintf(mail, "To: ldm@apartia.com\n");
    fprintf(mail, "Subject: %s\n", subject);
    fprintf(mail, "User-Agent: to %s\n", mailto);
    fprintf(mail, "\n");
    fprintf(mail, mess);
    fprintf(mail, "\n.\n");

    return pclose(mail);
}

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