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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Mail function in shell scripting Post 302811961 by jpt123 on Friday 24th of May 2013 03:58:03 PM
Old 05-24-2013
Hi Karthick.

Just as a check to see if your mail command is working correctly, you could view the mail log.

For me it is in /var/log and called 'mail' although yours may be different (maybe maillog)

You should be able to see in there whether the mail is even being queued.

There should also be an error log for mail (ours is called mail.warn and there's a mail.error too) which may give you some pointers as to why the mail is not being sent.

If you cannot find your mail logs but are on your workplace network, you could also try sending a mail to your internal email address first and see if that arrives successfully, if so then this would indicate some changes are needed to mail externally.
 

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mail

mail(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						  mail(1B)

NAME

       mail, Mail - interactive message processing system

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/mail ...

       /usr/ucb/Mail ...

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/ucb/mail and /usr/ucb/Mail are provided as links to /usr/bin/mailx. See mailx(1) for more information on the usage of these commands.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

   /usr/ucb/mail
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

   /usr/ucb/Mail
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mailx(1),attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    19 Aug 1998 							  mail(1B)
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