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All,

I have a ksh script running on HP-UX (B.11.23 U ia64) that calls mailx and works the way I want. But I am modifying my script so that it uses functions instead of processing in-line. When I moved the mailx stuff into a function, it won't send the mail. It hangs and I have to Ctrl-C to get out. I've moved this portion of the script to a separate file so I can test the mail stuff by itself, but it's not working. Any help is appreciated. Code:

sendtestemail()
{
SUBJECT="TEST .: HP-UX E-Mail Test :. TEST"
TO="me@mycompany.com"
USERS=$(grep @mycompany.com /dir1/dir2/addys | awk '$1 == "#CP" {print $2}')

echo "Sending e-mail request..."

mailx -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO" \<\<-EOT
"Test script; please ignore. Thanks!"

"*** NOTE ***"
"This is not a production script."
"A production script would have been e-mailed to the following users:"

"Users"
"----------------------------------"
"$USERS"

"-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
"This e-mail was automatically generated by the ${0##*/} script on $(hostname). Please do not reply."
~.
EOT
}

Never mind. I figured it out. When I was testing, I guess I put the back ticks "`" in the wrong place. They should be at the beginning of the mailx line and after the EOF line.