04-28-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by
lavascript
That may be your mail gateway or server mail settings.
Just try this to start with from command line before any scripting.
# echo "Mail test" | mailx -s "Mail Subject" <your_email@address.com>
Obviously removing the < > brackets.
Try typing mailq to see if mail is queued. Also have you configured your mail software on the server to work?
Cheers
actually the only thing i have done as far as mail is concerned,is to install mailx on my ubuntu...
//tried this from my command line but still no result in my inbox...
when i type mailq it says 'exim
![Stick Out Tongue Smilie](https://www.unix.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif)
ermission denied'...
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. AIX
Hi
All,
I have AIX 5.3 server. I am not able to transfer multiple file in mail but I can send one file at a time. the following command I am using to send multiple file
mail -s 'PICS EXP RATE Logs' lger@nd.com < /data02/transfer/*_experience_rate_log.txt
but this not working. i can send... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: vishalpatel03
2 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I'm having a problem with my mail. When I send mail, it takes a long time for the send to complete.
In the below, datestamp is just a simple script to put in a no-white-space date/time stamp.
$ datestamp ; mail woodnt; datestamp
02-05-10@193844
Subject: test
timer
Cc: ... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Narnie
0 Replies
3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I need script that will allow me to connect to multiple clients using ssh on Ubuntu terminal...
I have a txt file with the ip addresses of clients, i need a script that will connect to everyone one by one and send some commands...
The idea is to check some settings on every client... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: marko07
2 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
If I want my script to send a mail to multiple recipients I can do the following:
if
then
echo $err_string1 | mailx -s "UAT CPU ALERT" 1@email.com
echo $err_string1 | mailx -s "UAT CPU ALERT" 2@email.com
fi
Can this also be done something like:
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: runnerpaul
1 Replies
5. AIX
Hi,
I need to send alert mail from AIX to mail server.
My mail server IP is 192.168.0.10
so I've add /etc/hosts as below
192.168.0.10 mydomain1.com
the I try to send mail to myname@mydomain1.com it's OK
Then I need to send mail to myname@mydomain2.com too.
so I've... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: oakmojo
1 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi, I'm trying to write a script that will check multiple files in a directory (all the relevant filenames begin "TT04.NOTES") for e-mail addresses, and then print these addresses to screen with a count at the bottom. I'm a bit of a novice with Perl but thought it would be the best tool for the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: wf1974
2 Replies
7. Red Hat
We don't have uuencode installed in our machines..... Please tell me how to send mail with multiple attachments ??? URGENT !!!!!
Please tell me using command line (or) scripts..........
please......
Thanks in Advance.... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vamshigvk475
1 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a file 1.txt which has 3 mail ids as below:
Maillist=abc@gmail.com def@gmail.com rcg@gmail.com
Now I want to write a script which will read this file and send the mail to all the users present in this file. (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vivekit82
6 Replies
9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
On both Solaris 10 and RHEL, we would like to configure sendmail in such a way that the email sent from the server should only go to a particular domain. For eg. We want our server to ONLY send the mail to <user_name>@abc.com. All other domains should be blocked/restricted. The server should not... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: sk2code
0 Replies
10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers
I have a sample script here I want to bold the word BOLD in the text and send through email. Tried several ways but not seems to working.
BODY="Hello. I want to BOLD this"
{
echo "From: from@gmail.com"
echo "To: to@gmail.com"
echo "Subject: Texting"
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: lpoolfc
1 Replies
mailq(1) General Commands Manual mailq(1)
NAME
mailq - Displays the contents of the mail queue
SYNOPSIS
mailq [-v]
DESCRIPTION
The mailq command displays a list of messages in the mail queue. The mailq command is the same as the sendmail command with the -bp
option; see sendmail for more information.
EXAMPLES
The mailq command lists the mail queue as shown in the following example: Mail Queue (1 request) --QID--- -Size- ---Q-
Time------- --Sender/Recipient--- AA002508 3 Thu Dec 17 10:01 root The mailq -v command lists the mail queue as shown in the
following example: Mail Queue (1 request) --QID--- -Size- -Priority- ---Q-Time---- -Sender/Recipient- AA002508
3 1005 Dec 17 10:01 root
(Output might be formatted differently on your system.)
The fields have the following meaning: Contains the message queue ID of the message. Contains the number of bytes in the body of
the message (header information not included). Contains the priority of the message. Contains the date that the message entered
the queue. Contains the user ID of the sender (first), and then the user ID of the receiver of the message. In this example, a
message also indicates the status of the message.
FILES
Contains the log file and temporary files associated with the messages in the mail queue.
SEE ALSO
Commands: sendmail(8)
mailq(1)