UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

i want to send an email from the unix machine to the windows machine.
now windows dont have any specified folder for the mail. mail has to be sent to the email-id like abc@xyz.com
unix machine itself can not directly send mail.
it has to be transferred via mail server.

mailx -s "subject" abc@xyz.com <mail_body.txt

Hi,

I am writing a script wherein I have got a file date3 in my current directory
which I want to send to my lotes notes id abc.com via email.

I have seen a number of posts on this but unable to get my work done.

here is the code which I have tried

cat date3 | mailx -s &quot;hii&quot; abc.com

but it directly comes on prompt without giving any output whereas I want to get this file date3 on my mail box id i.e abc.com

I am working on HP-UX.

Feel free to share your ideas or any solutions related to this.

thanks in advance,
haris

You can use uuencode command to attach the file and send it to your email.

uuencode <filename> <newfilename>| mailx -s "<Subject>" abc@com

Hi Krrishv,

Thanks for your reply.
But still I am unable to figure this out.Now I have tried sendmail command.

Here is the code :

sendmail -v "unix" -t abc.polaris.co.in < date3

Here date3 is file in my current path which I want to send to my lotus notes id.
Now when I run my script it comes to command prompt and gives me this error

uxmum12: /trimsbld/users/abc/.practice> mail1
unix... Connecting to sunbom1.cosl.in.citicorp.com. via relay...
unix... Deferred: Connection timed out with sunbom1.cosl.in.citicorp.com.
abc.polaris.co.in... Connecting to polaris.co.in via esmtp...
abc.polaris.co.in... Host unknown (Name server: polaris.co.in: host not found)
/trimsbld/users/abc/dead.letter... Saved message in /trimsbld/users/abc/dead.letter
uxmum12: /trimsbld/users/abc/.practice>

Whereas I want date3 file sent to my id abc.polaris.co.in

Any suggestions on this one,please let me know.

thanks in advance,
haris

It looks like SMTP relaying is not enabled for that server. You should check whether SMTP relaying is allowed for that server.

You can probably check whether relaying is enabled or not using the below command from your server.

telnet <Outbound SMTP Relay Server>:25

Outbound SMTP Relay Server should be your SMTP relaying server and default port is 25.

How do we check that SMTP relaying is enabled or not for any server?

thanks in advance,
haris