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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users mailx Post 302208127 by paradoxical on Monday 23rd of June 2008 04:28:53 AM
Old 06-23-2008
help with mail command
Hi!! I am trying to write a script that will send mail with a fixed content to email addresses fetched from a db2 table. I want the mail to appear with To, From, Cc and Subject Headers. Any idea how to do it.

This is what I have been trying:

db2 -x "SELECT USER_EMAIL_ID FROM <table_name> WHERE (LST_LOGIN_TS + 30 DAYS) >= TimeStamp (Current TimeStamp)" >mailing_list

mailing_list1=$(cat mailing_list | tr -s ' ' | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's/,$//')


cat body | mail -r "xyz@yahoo.com" -c abc@yahoo.com -s "Account Deactivation." $mailing_list1

#body is the name of the file that contains tha actual body of the mail to be sent.


But I am not sure of I can hardcode tha name of the sender using the -r option as I have done above. Also I am not sure if the names of sender, receipients, subject will appear as To:, From: and Subject: Headers in the mail. Any help will be appreciated.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

from

from(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						  from(1B)

NAME

       from - display the sender and date of newly-arrived mail messages

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/from [-s sender] [username]

DESCRIPTION

       The  from utility prints out the mail header lines in your mailbox file to show you who your mail is from. If  username is specified, user-
       name's mailbox is examined instead of your own.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -s sender       Only display headers for mail sent by  sender.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of from when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

FILES

       /var/mail/*

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       biff(1B), mail(1B), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.10							    28 Jan 2004 							  from(1B)
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