SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)

💌 SCRIPT-EMAIL(8) — the lil' script that emails your besties

okay so real talk: this is a System Administration Commands manpage, SCRIPT-EMAIL(8), and it's the whole tea on script-email. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

script-email — an Amanda script that sends email notifications. literally that's her job. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So script-email is an Amanda script implementing the Script API. Bestie, please hear me on this one: it should not be run by users directly. no cap. she's not a main character you invoke in your shell — she gets called by Amanda, okay?

What she does do: sends a notification email to the addresses specified in the MAILTO property. that's it. that's the whole vibe. ✨

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🎀 PROPERTIES 🎀

This bit lists the properties that control script-email's functionality. if you wanna know more about the Script API and script configuration in general, go check amanda-scripts(7) — she's got the lore. 📖

💖 MAILTO

List of email addresses that will receive an email on command execution. highkey important: it's a multi-valued property, which means you can stack as many addresses as you want, like this:

property "MAILTO" "amanda@domain.com" "sysadmin@domain.com" "amandauser@domain.com"

see how she just keeps going? more addresses, more friends getting the notification. slay. 🔥

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🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

So in this example, script-email is scheduled to be run before the DLE, on the server. The unqualified email address amanda will be passed to the email system unchanged — like, nobody's editing that, it goes through as-is, periodt.

Then the script gets attached to a dumptype, which you can then specify for any DLEs that require notification. 💫

 define script-tool pre-email {
   comment "email me before this DLE is backed up"
   plugin  "script-email"
   execute-on pre-dle-backup
   execute-where server
   property "mailto" "amanda"
 }

 define dumptype user-tar-email {
   user-tar
   script "pre-email"
 }

look at that. iconic. she's attached, she's scheduled, she's emailing. 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• amanda(8)
• amanda.conf(5)
• amanda-client.conf(5)
• amanda-scripts(7)

The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ 🌐

ok the double colon in that wiki line is literally in the original, i'm not fixing it, she's perfect as she is 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
• Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

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⭐ the sign-off ⭐

k that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅. this masterpiece is from Amanda 3.5.4, dated 07/23/2025, and it lives at SCRIPT-EMAIL(8). now go forth and email responsibly 🎀💌🦋