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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problem using unix mail command Post 302285322 by cprash.aggarwal on Sunday 8th of February 2009 01:15:44 PM
Old 02-08-2009
Problem using unix mail command

Hello,

When i am using mail command like this:
mail -r prashant.aggarwal@xx.com -s "hiiii" prashant.aggarwal@xx.com < Content.txt i am abl eto dend a mail. Content.txt is a file from which contents are being reda

But when i am trying to execute it thru a shell scipt like this it's giving
The flags you gave make no sense since you're not sending mail. The strange part is still sending the mail to me as desired, why is this message coming?

The shell script is this:

while read line
do
mail -r prashant.aggarwal@xx.com -s "The CBE Alert Processor is not working in Development" $line < Content.txt
done < MailTo.txt

MailTo.txt contains email id's to which i want to send mail. Each id starts from new line

Please guide me where is the problem

Thanks
 

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

NAME
mail, Mail - interactive message processing system SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/mail ... /usr/ucb/Mail ... DESCRIPTION
/usr/ucb/mail and /usr/ucb/Mail are provided as links to /usr/bin/mailx. See mailx(1) for more information on the usage of these commands. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: /usr/ucb/mail +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ /usr/ucb/Mail +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWscpu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mailx(1),attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 19 Aug 1998 mail(1B)
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