The "-" is a synonym for STDIN - standard input. So what we're saying here is conCATenate STDIN (in our case, the echo command) and the "text" input file, then pipe everything through to sendmail.
When I try to use mailx on AIX 5.2 I get the following message:
"The flags you gave make no sense since you're not sending mail."
The type of command sent is as follows:
mailx -s "Test" -c gilstanden@hotmail.com < sendmail.pid
but it just gives the message referenced previously.
Do I need to... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have to use sendmail from command line, and we need to append a static string in subject to a new value from file.Is there any way to do it.
Thanks
Shrikrishna (1 Reply)
Dear All
how the root user i.e root@localhos.localdomain can be masqueraded in sendmail i want to masquerade the above to say test@test.com
Regards and thanks in advance (3 Replies)
Hi,
Can anyone kindly provide some information about how to populate the subject field of the email while using the sendmail utility ? Itried the following command line argument :
echo -e "Body of the email" | /usr/lib/sendmail -f from@from.com -t to@to.com -s " Subject of the email"
... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
I am trying to send a file through email everyday from one of my Linux (x86_64) system. I've scheduled Sendmail in Crontab like this-
00 8 * * * /usr/sbin/sendmail name@xxx.co.uk < /home/file1.out
This entry in crontab is working very fine and I am receiving file file1.out... (10 Replies)
I have sendmail enabled in my Solaris 10 boxes. It has being flagged as an violation to unix security standard as the port 25 is listening. I want to run the sendmail to run in non-daemon mode so that the queue is processed. Please help. (0 Replies)
Hello, I'm configuring sendmail on an AIX 7.1 server (bos.net.tcp.client 7.1.1.15).
I've gotten sendmail to send mail through our Novell GroupWise server, so that mail from a user on the server appears to come from their GroupWise account, and replies to the email would go to their GroupWise... (0 Replies)
I am running SCO 5.0.6 and using sendmail 8.11.0 and having issues with smtp authentication. When trying to send mail the following message will kick back.
(reason: 530 5.7.1 Authentication required)
530 5.7.1 Authentication required
Not sure what needs to be tweeked in sendmail.cf but I... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I have read about sendmail running as 2 separate process.
1 as a MSP, and the other as the real daemon or MTA.
In my current configuration,
the sendmail-client is disabled.
Both submit.cf and sendmail.cf are left as default untouch
I do not specified any mailhost... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: javanoob
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
mailer.conf
MAILER.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual MAILER.CONF(5)NAME
mailer.conf -- configuration file for mailwrapper(8)DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/mail/mailer.conf contains a series of lines of the form
name program [arguments ...]
The first word of each line is the name of a program invoking mailwrapper(8). (For example, on a typical system /usr/sbin/sendmail would be
a symbolic link to mailwrapper(8), as would newaliases(1) and mailq(1). Thus, name might be ``sendmail'' or ``newaliases'' etc.)
The second word of each line is the name of the program to actually execute when the first name is invoked.
The further arguments, if any, are passed to the program, followed by the arguments mailwrapper(8) was called with.
The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a '#' mark in the first column of any line.
FILES
/etc/mail/mailer.conf
EXAMPLES
This example shows how to set up mailer.conf to invoke the traditional sendmail(8) program:
# Execute the "real" sendmail program located in
# /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix in place of sendmail(8):
# Emulate sendmail using postfix
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike with Exim (from ports) in place of sendmail(8):
# Emulate sendmail using exim
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim
mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
newaliases /usr/bin/true
rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee
This example shows the use of the mini_sendmail package from ports in place of sendmail(8). Note the use of additional arguments.
# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail
sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
send-mail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
SEE ALSO mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), mailwrapper(8), sendmail(8)postfix(1) (ports/mail/postfix), mini_sendmail(8) (ports/mail/mini_sendmail)
HISTORY
mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.
AUTHORS
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
BUGS
The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave dif-
ferently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like mailq(1) should go away.
BSD October 8, 2010 BSD