os.mail - Function

mail a message to a user

Synopsis
mail(message, recipient, sender, subject, cc, bcc)

Description
Mail a message to one or more recipients. It is also possible to give zero or more cc- and bcc-addresses. Note that \n can be used to create multiple lines in the message. If the sender is given as a boolean, it is assumed that the message contains lines containing the sender, subject, etc.. Otherwise the message is prepended with such lines.

The mailer to be used can be defined in the aipsrc variable os.mailer. It defaults to mailx.

The function is used by bug and ask. Currently it uses a shell command to do the mailing.

Example
The following command sends a message with noordam as the sender.

  dos.mail ('line1\nline2', 'gvd mhaller', 'noordam', 'some subject',
            cc='tcornwel@nrao.edu wyoung@nrao.edu')

Arguments

message	in	message to send
		Allowed:	string
recipient	in	whom to send the message
		Allowed:	string
sender	in	whom the message comes from
		Allowed:	string
		Default:	T
subject	in	subject of the email
		Allowed:	string
		Default:	''
cc	in	whom to cc the message
		Allowed:	string
		Default:	''
bcc	in	whom to bcc (blind copy) the message
		Allowed:	string
		Default:	''

Returns
T or fail

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