email from bash script

#!/bin/bash
MESSAGE="Line one. /n"

MESSAGE="$MESSAGE Line two. /n"
MESSAGE="$MESSAGE 开发者_JAVA技巧Line three."

echo $MESSAGE | mail -s "test" "example@example.com"

Is that how I should get each line, on its own line?

Use a heredoc.

mail -s "test" "example@example.com" << END_MAIL
Line one.
Line two.
Line three.
END_MAIL

Change:

echo $MESSAGE | mail -s "test" "example@example.com"

To:

echo -e $MESSAGE | mail -s "test" "example@example.com"

The heredoc advice is good, plus you might want to consider using mailx for which there exists a Posix standard or perhaps sendmail which will exist if the mailer is either sendmail or postfix. (I'm not sure about qmail.)

Unless using sendmail, it's also a good idea to set the MAILRC variable to /dev/null to bypass the user's configuration script, if any.