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Operating Systems BSD mail command is not working Post 302689675 by gita on Wednesday 22nd of August 2012 01:17:03 AM
Old 08-22-2012
mail command is not working

Hi,

Mail command is not working.
Code:
mail -s "hello" abc@google.com < samplefile

I am new to BSD.what do i need to do? Please help.

Thnaks,
Gita.


Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use code tags next time for your code and data.

Last edited by gita; 08-22-2012 at 02:32 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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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@FreeBSD.org "|/usr/bin/vacation nobody" Mail would be forwarded to <nobody@FreeBSD.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
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