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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Mail command confusion Post 302176558 by bsandeep_80 on Tuesday 18th of March 2008 02:17:43 PM
Old 03-18-2008
Hi,

i used your command and it did not hang and it came to prompt
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mail -s "I am a newbie" sandy@xyz.com </dev/null
Null message body; hope that's ok
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root
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But i have not recieved any mail yet. when i checked in /var/spool/mail/root i found this in the root file:


From root@blr.xyz.com Tue Mar 18 23:40:00 2008
Return-Path: <root@blr.xyz.com >
Received: from root@blr.xyz.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by root@blr.xyz.com
(8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m2IIA0Jb007195
for <root@blr.xyz.com>; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:40:00 +0530
Received: (from root@localhost)
by root@blr.xyz.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id m2IIA0xi007193
for root; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:40:00 +0530
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:40:00 +0530
Message-Id: <200803181810.m2IIA0xi007193@root@blr.xyz.com >
From: root@blr.xyz.com (Cron Daemon)
To: root@blr.xyz.com
Subject: Cron <root@blr> /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>

Cannot open /var/log/sa/sa18: No such file or directory




please help
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

mailto.conf

mailto.conf(5)							    Apple Inc.							    mailto.conf(5)

NAME

       mailto.conf - configuration file for cups email notifier

DESCRIPTION

       The mailto.conf file defines the local mail server and email notification preferences for CUPS.

       Each line in the file can be a configuration directive, a blank line, or a comment. Comment lines start with the # character.

DIRECTIVES

       Cc cc-address@domain.com
	    Specifies an additional recipient for all email notifications.

       From from-address@domain.com
	    Specifies the sender of email notifications.

       Sendmail sendmail command and options
	    Specifies  the  sendmail  command  to use when sending email notifications. Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the
	    mailto.conf file. If multiple lines are present, only the last one is used.

       SMTPServer servername
	    Specifies a SMTP server to send email notifications to. Only one Sendmail or SMTPServer line may be present in the	mailto.conf  file.
	    If multiple lines are present, only the last one is used.

       Subject subject-prefix
	    Specifies a prefix string for the subject line of an email notification.

SEE ALSO

       classes.conf(5), cupsd(8), cupsd.conf(5), mime.convs(5), mime.types(5), printers.conf(5),
       http://localhost:631/help

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007-2009 by Apple Inc.

12 July 2006							       CUPS							    mailto.conf(5)
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