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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Checking whether the mail was sent or not Post 302676259 by Jayaraman on Tuesday 24th of July 2012 10:31:05 AM
Old 07-24-2012
Checking whether the mail was sent or not

Hi all!!

Im using Ksh and working on Linux.

Im sending a mail to a mail_Id i have using the following code:
Code:
 
mutt -a file -s "some subject" $Mail_Id < Body.txt

I want to check whether the mail was actually sent or not. I tried the following code:
Code:
 
mutt -a file -s "some subject" $Mail_Id < Body.txt
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then 
........
else
........
fi

The problem is even if the mail id i give is wrong, $? is 0
I dont know how to check whether it was actually sent or not.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance !!

Last edited by Jayaraman; 07-24-2012 at 11:33 AM.. Reason: clarification
 

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BIFF(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   BIFF(1)

NAME
biff -- be notified if mail arrives and who it is from SYNOPSIS
biff [ny] DESCRIPTION
Biff informs the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session. Options supported by biff: n Disables notification. y Enables notification. When mail notification is enabled, the header and first few lines of the message will be printed on your screen whenever mail arrives. A ``biff y'' command is often included in the file .login or .profile to be executed at each login. Biff operates asynchronously via the comsat(8) service. If that service is not enabled, biff will not do anything. In that case, or for syn- chronous notification, use the MAIL variable of sh(1) or the mail variable of csh(1). SEE ALSO
csh(1), mail(1), sh(1), comsat(8) HISTORY
The biff command appeared in 4.0BSD. BUGS
su(1), and biff don't seem to get on too well. This is probably due to the tty still being owned by the person using su. This can result in ``Permission denied'' messages when attempting to change the biff status of your session. Please report bugs to netbug@ftp.uk.linux.org including diffs/patches, compiler error logs or as complete a bug report as is possible. Linux NetKit (0.17-pre-20000412) July 31, 1999 Linux NetKit (0.17-pre-20000412)
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