10-30-2007
Email sending through a shell script
Hi everyone,
I have a shell script that I use to send some emails with attachments. Based on the attachment file that is being sent, I choose the recipient.
My file_list.txt looks like this
CAJ.txt;sm@email.com
KXLD.txt;jc@email.com
I do a grep on this file to look for the file name and extract the second field and store it in another variable as below.
email_dest= grep $FILENAME file_list.txt|cut -d ";" -f 2;
When I echo this variable it gives me the correct email address.
However when I try to send the email using this variable using the syntax,
mailx -s $FILENAME $email_dest
or mailx -s $FILENAME ${email_dest}
I get the following error message-
The flags you gave are used only when sending mail.
Usage: mailx -eiIUdFntBNHvV~ -T FILE -u USER -h hops -r address
-s SUBJECT -f FILE users
When I replace the variable with the email address, it sends the emails correctly. I have a feeling there might be a line feed character somewhere that is causing an issue but not sure how I can get rid of it.
Can anyone provide inputs as to how I can work around this or any other solution that would be more efficient. Thanks!
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
"Mail::Verify" provides a function CheckAddress function for verifying email addresses. First the syntax of the email address is checked,
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ERRORS
Here are a list of return codes and what they mean:
0 The email address appears to be valid.
1 No email address was supplied.
2 There is a syntaxical error in the email address.
3 There are no DNS entries for the host in question (no MX records or A records).
4 There are no live SMTP servers accepting connections for this email address.
EXAMPLES
This example shows obtaining an email address from a form field and verifying it.
use CGI qw/:standard/;
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my $q = new CGI;
[...]
my $email = $q->param("emailaddr");
my $email_ck = Mail::Verify::CheckAddress( $email );
if( $email_ck ) {
print '<h1>Form input error: Invalid email address.</h1>';
}
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