10-23-2006
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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
how can I check mail quota, and then how can I send mail to user whose quota get full??? :confused:
For this which script must I use? (8 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'd like to somehow schedule a task on my webserver, such that my account's mail is checked every 10-15 minutes and:
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b) any new e-mails received from a different particular address are... (2 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm trying to find a command to check what mail is being sent to my sendmail server... Can't seem to find it... anyone know how to do this? (1 Reply)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
We run an application called meta which reads user information from database and updates in LDAP.For that we have some scripts to check the uniqueness of mail ids between the existing LDAP and Database.It works fine when people enter mail ids in proper format (xxx.yyy@abc.com) but if it... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi - I am trying to send email from unix box but none were delivered. I have tried multiple commands like mailx, mail or sendmail. But none of them worked. can you please let me know how to check if I have the right permissions to send the mail or not? (1 Reply)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
A friend of mine is switching his email from one University server to a different one. He is using the tcsh, and on his current server, the shell will tell him (when the prompt is displayed) if there is new mail. The new server, where he also has the tcsh, does not do this by default. I got him... (0 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
I want to check the mail attachement size before sending the mail.
I coded:
IF FILESIZE > XBYTES THEN
MESSAGE "Mail attachment size exceeds limit"
ELSE
SEND MAIL.
But I want to know the quantifier.
To get the XBYTES, I used
ls -ltr filename | awk '{print $5}'
into a variable, now,... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: harishkumardola
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I know the command mailq can check the pending mail in mqueue , and also have another command to check POSIX mail queue in server , now I will regularly check the mqueue manually , it is time consuming , would advise the script that could help to check the mail queue , and then send the details to... (3 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I am trying to write a script which will check if the filesize is grather than 0 KB, compress the file and send to the email list else if the file size is zero KB don't send a mail update the log
if
then
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
We use Redhat server , we always use mailq to check any pending mail in mailq , when run the command mailq , it shows all existing pending mail would advise how to write a script to show the pending mails which are older than 24 hours , ( if possible , then send this pending mail info to... (9 Replies)
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BINMAIL(1) General Commands Manual BINMAIL(1)
NAME
binmail - send or receive mail among users
SYNOPSIS
/bin/mail [ + ] [ -i ] [ person ] ...
/bin/mail [ + ] [ -i ] -f file
DESCRIPTION
Note: This is the old version 7 UNIX system mail program. The default mail command is described in Mail(1), and its binary is in the
directory /usr/ucb.
mail with no argument prints a user's mail, message-by-message, in last-in, first-out order; the optional argument + displays the mail mes-
sages in first-in, first-out order. For each message, it reads a line from the standard input to direct disposition of the message.
newline
Go on to next message.
d Delete message and go on to the next.
p Print message again.
- Go back to previous message.
s [ file ] ...
Save the message in the named files (`mbox' default).
w [ file ] ...
Save the message, without a header, in the named files (`mbox' default).
m [ person ] ...
Mail the message to the named persons (yourself is default).
EOT (control-D)
Put unexamined mail back in the mailbox and stop.
q Same as EOT.
!command
Escape to the Shell to do command.
* Print a command summary.
An interrupt normally terminates the mail command; the mail file is unchanged. The optional argument -i tells mail to continue after
interrupts.
When persons are named, mail takes the standard input up to an end-of-file (or a line with just `.') and adds it to each person's `mail'
file. The message is preceded by the sender's name and a postmark. Lines that look like postmarks are prepended with `>'. A person is
usually a user name recognized by login(1). To denote a recipient on a remote system, prefix person by the system name and exclamation
mark (see uucp(1C)).
The -f option causes the named file, for example, `mbox', to be printed as if it were the mail file.
When a user logs in he is informed of the presence of mail.
FILES
/etc/passwd to identify sender and locate persons
/usr/spool/mail/* incoming mail for user *
mbox saved mail
/tmp/ma* temp file
/usr/spool/mail/*.lock lock for mail directory
dead.letter unmailable text
SEE ALSO
Mail(1), write(1), uucp(1C), uux(1C), xsend(1), sendmail(8)
BUGS
Race conditions sometimes result in a failure to remove a lock file.
Normally anybody can read your mail, unless it is sent by xsend(1). An installation can overcome this by making mail a set-user-id command
that owns the mail directory.
7th Edition April 29, 1985 BINMAIL(1)