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&lt;p&gt;The command line &amp;quot;cddb-tool&amp;quot; uses &lt;tt class="docutils literal"&gt;mail&lt;/tt&gt; to send out CDDB database update mails - but I had no &lt;tt class="docutils literal"&gt;mail&lt;/tt&gt; installed, only Thunderbird.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;tt class="docutils literal"&gt;&lt;span class="pre"&gt;xdg-email&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tt&gt; can be used to invoke all sorts of GUI email clients from command line on Linux, but there was no converter from &amp;quot;mail&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;xdg-email&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This script is it.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span class="re2"&gt;recipients&lt;/span&gt;=&lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="re2"&gt;subject&lt;/span&gt;=&lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="re2"&gt;text&lt;/span&gt;=$&lt;span class="br0"&gt;&amp;#40;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="kw2"&gt;cat&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="sy0"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;dev&lt;span class="sy0"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt;stdin&lt;span class="br0"&gt;&amp;#41;&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160;
&lt;span class="re2"&gt;mode&lt;/span&gt;=&lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="kw1"&gt;for&lt;/span&gt; i &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;$@&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;do&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="br0"&gt;&amp;#91;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;span class="es2"&gt;$i&lt;/span&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; = &lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;-s&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="br0"&gt;&amp;#93;&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;then&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="re2"&gt;mode&lt;/span&gt;=subject
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="kw3"&gt;continue&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;else&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="br0"&gt;&amp;#91;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;span class="es2"&gt;$mode&lt;/span&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; = &lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;subject&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="br0"&gt;&amp;#93;&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;then&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="re2"&gt;subject&lt;/span&gt;=&lt;span class="re1"&gt;$i&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="re2"&gt;mode&lt;/span&gt;=&lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;else&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="re2"&gt;recipients&lt;/span&gt;=&lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;span class="es2"&gt;$recipients&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="es2"&gt;$i&lt;/span&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;fi&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160; &amp;#160; &lt;span class="kw1"&gt;fi&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="kw1"&gt;done&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160;
&lt;span class="co0"&gt;#echo $recipients&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="co0"&gt;#echo $subject&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span class="co0"&gt;#echo $text&lt;/span&gt;
&amp;#160;
xdg-email &lt;span class="re5"&gt;--subject&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;span class="es2"&gt;$subject&lt;/span&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="re5"&gt;--body&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="st0"&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;span class="es2"&gt;$text&lt;/span&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="re1"&gt;$recipients&lt;/span&gt;
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