12-06-2011
What Operating System and version were you using?
Though you have clearly fixed the problem, there is much different behaviour of "mail" and "mailx".
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi
Is there any way to use UNIX and Perl to automate sending e-mail. I got a dynamic changing file that send out to people in my mailing list and want to experinment to see if Perl and UNIX can send it out for me when the content is change. I found a Perl source code but dont really know how to... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jy2728
4 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi,
Im trying to send a e-mail to two people e.g X & Y . I run a shell script that uses the mail command to send an email to both these people . The email that i am sending contains two attatchments that i 'add' to a .mail file.
mail <recipients> < filename.mail
The problem that im... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nbvcxzdz
1 Replies
3. Solaris
Hello I am new user on solaris...
I need to configure my solaris to be able to send mails...
I know mailx command
mailx -s hello address@address.com
but I get an error...
you have mail in /var/mail/root
# hello... User unknown
/dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter
what... (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: amon
10 Replies
4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
1)My main script Calls a function IsDomain to check whether the domain is valid or not
PROD>/appl/retek/mpscripts/cat mg3TRn01
#!/bin/ksh
#
# Standard Header Files
#
#
. ${0%${0##*/}}UKMPFunctionLibrary.test
#
# START
#
ScriptStart
#
# Check that domain exists.Print &... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: Shilpi
0 Replies
5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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 ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: cprash.aggarwal
3 Replies
6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi all ,
I wanted to know how does a 'mail' command works in unix. Does it use an smtp server internally ?
How and where it is configured then ? I am trying to google out the same , but not getting much help.
Any suggestions with be of great help.
- Andy (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: anindyabecs
5 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
Is it possible to email a file from another directory in Unix shell prompt? In other words, do we have to be in the directory where the file is located to mail the file?
I was in the Mail directory and my file (filename) is in the Practice directory. I tried this and it didn't work:... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: onlinelearner02
7 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
My objective is to check the value of a variable which I will set it in the command line after sleep time mentioned in the script.I have executed my script in the background then pressed Enter.I have set temporary variable like below export PAUSE="PAUSE".I am not getting the value of the variable... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: liyakathali
3 Replies
9. Red Hat
Whats the difference between mail and mailx?
I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem where I can send mail from server A with this `echo $MESSAGE | mail -s "$SUBJECT" -r $FROM $RECIPIENTS` command but executing the same command from server B throws me this error (Both servers are RHEL)
... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: RedSpyder
1 Replies
10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am using HP-UX server. I tried to send the email with attachment, I used the below unix command to send with attachment but it doent work.
uuencode pepsitoday.csv | mailx -s "csv file" ramkumar15@pepsi.com
---------- Post updated at 02:10 AM ---------- Previous update was at... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ramkumar15
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
mailcompat
mailcompat(1) User Commands mailcompat(1)
NAME
mailcompat - provide SunOS compatibility for Solaris mailbox format
DESCRIPTION
mailcompat is a program to provide SunOS 4.x compatability for the Solaris mailbox format. You would typically run mailcompat to be able
to read mail on a workstation running SunOS 4.x when your mail server is running Solaris.
Enabling mailcompat creates an entry in your .forward file, if it exists. If this file does not exist, mailcompat will create it. Dis-
abling mailcompat will remove the entry from the .forward file, and if this was the only entry, will remove the entire file.
To execute mailcompat, log onto the Solaris mail server and enter mailcompat on the command line. Answer the queries provided by the pro-
gram.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mailcompat when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Examples of the mailcompat feature.
The following example enables the mailcompat feature for the user "john".
example% mailcompat
This program can be used to store your mail in a format
that you can read with SunOS 4.X based mail readers
To enable the mailcompat feature a ".forward" file is created.
Would you like to enable the mailcompat feature? Y
Mailcompat feature ENABLED.Run mailcompat with no arguments to remove it
example%
The following example disables the mailcompat feature for the user "john".
example% mailcompat
This program can be used to store your mail in a format
that you can read with SunOS 4.X based mail readers
You have a .forward file in your home directory containing:
"|/usr/bin/mailcompat johns"
Would you like to remove it and disable the mailcompat feature? y
Back to normal reception of mail.
example%
FILES
~/.forward list of recipients for forwarding messages
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mailx(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)
SunOS 5.10 4 Aug 1994 mailcompat(1)