1.
I need to send emails using a shell script on linux. I want to use the most widespread method (the preferred method). Is one considered deprecated in favor of the other? Which, mail or sendmail ?
2.
Now, without trying to favor mail in the first question: How can I include a From: mail field in this shell command? I want it all in one line
Code:
echo "This is the email body" | mail -s "This is the Subject" recipientemail@somedomain.com
quick question.
I have a webserver that has various scripts for user registration and ect on it. I want to post (mail) these to myself - however I am a bit stuck on how to configure sendmail to do this.
The hosting partner that I use has provided me with the use of their relay to send on the... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need to forward mail wich are in some users mailbox. The .forward redirection is working for all new mails but not for old. Is someone know how to do this ?
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hello guys,
Am trying to enable/start sendmail in Solaris 10. I tried using scvadm and also did it using the /etc/init.d/sendmail restart but no effect. Just returns to the prompt. No errors nothing. I checked if it is running using ps -eaf | grep sendmail, not running :( . I checked the logs... (9 Replies)
Hello All,
i have configured sendmail and trying to set a limit on mail
Ex: If i have send any mail to a email-if that doesn'e exists, i want that after trying for 3 days it should stops sending that mail to user and send a mail to the sender that " sending mail failed , any messaged... (1 Reply)
Hi there all,
I got a small tiny problem of not remambering how this worked.
I get when I mail to a non existing mailbox I get a return failer to nobody@domain.bla wich will end up in root@domain.bla
What I want is to get it to /dev/NULL so I dont get a messege when I mailed to a non existing... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am using sendmail command to send mail
This is the command i am using
cat <filename> | /usr/lib/sendmail -v <emailid>
I will put the contents in the file as body of the email
I want the subject also to be printed in the email
I want to know whether email has been successfully... (1 Reply)
The question is, Does the mail comman actually send using sendmail or something else?
So I am trying to test if sendmail is set up. I used...
cat testemail.txt | mail -s "test mail" myemail@test.com
I used my email though I didn't get an error, but didn't get the email either.
... (2 Replies)
PHP mail() function doesn't work.
Nor does sendmail:
loaded system configuration file /etc/msmtprc
ignoring user configuration file /home/xi/.msmtprc: No such file or directory
falling back to default account
using account default from /etc/msmtprc
host = xsi
port = 25
proxy host = (not... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Xcislav
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
forward
FORWARD(5) BSD File Formats Manual FORWARD(5)NAME
forward -- mail forwarding instructions
DESCRIPTION
The .forward file contains a list of mail addresses or programs that the user's mail should be redirected to. If the file is not present,
then no mail forwarding will be done. Mail may also be forwarded as the standard input to a program by prefixing the line with the normal
shell pipe symbol (|). If arguments are to be passed to the command, then the entire line should be enclosed in quotes. For security rea-
sons, the .forward file must be owned by the user the mail is being sent to, or by root, and the user's shell must be listed in /etc/shells.
For example, if a .forward file contained the following lines:
nobody@NetBSD.org
"|/usr/bin/vacation nobody"
Mail would be forwarded to <nobody@NetBSD.org> and to the program /usr/bin/vacation with the single argument nobody.
If a local user address is prefixed with a backslash character, mail is delivered directly to the user's mail spool file, bypassing further
redirection.
For example, if user chris had a .forward file containing the following lines:
chris@otherhost
chris
One copy of mail would be forwarded to chris@otherhost and another copy would be retained as mail for local user chris.
FILES
$HOME/.forward The user's forwarding instructions.
SEE ALSO aliases(5), mailaddr(7), sendmail(8)BSD July 2, 1996 BSD
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