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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting mail function problem Post 302190370 by jwholey on Tuesday 29th of April 2008 11:55:59 AM
Old 04-29-2008
mail function problem
Hello all,

I'm attempting to sent an e-mail with the following funtion in my script. The tested that the logic is correct with another native os command, but I can't seem to get mail to work. I played with the "", just can't seem to get it right. Any ideas? Thanks.

$my_mail = `mail -s`;

sub mail {

$my_mail "test" my.name@company.com < /dev/null;

}


db_util.pl" 59 lines, 869 characters
./db_util.pl
String found where operator expected at ./db_util.pl line 57, near "$my_mail "test""
(Missing operator before "test"?)
Bareword found where operator expected at ./db_util.pl line 57, near ""test" my"
(Missing operator before my?)
Array found where operator expected at ./db_util.pl line 57, at end of line
Bareword found where operator expected at ./db_util.pl line 57, near "/dev/null"
(Missing operator before null?)
syntax error at ./db_util.pl line 57, near "$my_mail "test""
Execution of ./db_util.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

claws-mail-extra-plugins

CLAWS-MAIL-EXTRA-PLUGINS(1)				      General Commands Manual				       CLAWS-MAIL-EXTRA-PLUGINS(1)

NAME

       claws-mail-extra-plugins -- Claws Mail extra plugins meta package.

DESCRIPTION

       claws-mail-extra-plugins is a meta package for installing all extra plugins for the Claws Mail mailer.

       See below for the corresponding manpages of each installed plugin.

SEE ALSO

       claws-mail-acpi-notifier  (1),  claws-mail-attach-remover  (1), claws-mail-cache-saver (1), claws-mail-etpan-privacy (1), claws-mail-feeds-
       reader (1), claws-mail-fetchinfo-plugin (1), claws-mail-html2-viewer (1), claws-mail-maildir-plugin  (1),  claws-mail-mailmbox-plugin  (1),
       claws-mail-multi-notifier  (1),	claws-mail-newmail-plugin (1), claws-mail-perl-filter (1), claws-mail-smime-plugin (1), claws-mail-vcalen-
       dar-plugin (1), claws-mail-synce-plugin (1), claws-mail-attach-warner (1), claws-mail (1).

	       http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php (link to URL http://www.claws-mail.org/plugins.php)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Ricardo Mones mones@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted	to
       copy,  distribute  and/or  modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by
       the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

														       CLAWS-MAIL-EXTRA-PLUGINS(1)
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