The -r option is not portable. Maybe on purpose because it's ideal for a spammer.
The default is the user who sends the mail, and the administrator put some rules to generate a sender address out of it. (And that's not safe against a professional spammer either.)
I like the old Unix mail or sendmail tools that do not even know a -s option, and you have to construct the mail header in SMTP style:
NB an empty line indicates the end of the header section.
You can still try that with your advanced mail and mailx programs...
Hello everybody
I already read all the posts about "how to send email" but i dont find the solution, i need to send a mail via commands. Into the mail i need to attach a file.txt how can i do that?
Thanx.
Lestat (2 Replies)
while trying to send a mail, though the output file doesn't contain any exclamatory mark(!), i am getting that in the mail with an extra line. please help me out from this ASAP. (3 Replies)
Hi All,
Please help me regarding sending mails using mailx command in unix.
I will be glad if some one give me the sintax of this. I tried using the below but vain.
mailx -s 'Hi' 'xyz@abc.com'
Regards,
Manas (5 Replies)
hi All,
i am trying to send a mail from perl using mailx.
the script runs fine if i hard code the file path which is to be attached to the mail. but when i give a variable containing the path of the file , perl is not able to send the file.
ex:
system('uuencode /attach/test.txt... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am C. and I would like to send mail with Sendmail to my hotmail-account.
But this doesn't work, the mail always returns in the file:
/var/spool/mail/root.
Probably there is something wrong with my SmartHost.
I configured it like:
define ( 'SMART_HOST','smtp.direct-adsl.be')
-->... (1 Reply)
Hi,
i need to send emails to the mail ids i receive using the sql query .
SELECT L.ALARM_DEF,L.CRITERIA,L.DISTANCE_METRE,L.EMAIL,L.LAC_ID,L.LAST_CHECK,L.RANGE,
L.RESOURCE_MSISDN,LM.ADDRESS,LM.NAME FROM LANDMARK_ALARM_CONF l, LANDMARK lm
WHERE L.LANDMARK_ID=LM.LANDMARK_ID AND... (0 Replies)
Hi
I need help to send mail through mailx command . Currenlt my program is like
#!/bin/ksh -x
echo " " >> path.lst
MAIL_LIST='someone1@gamil.com someone2@gamil.com someone3@gamil.com'
cat path.lst | mailx -s "path loaction" $MAIL_LIST
echo "End"
exit 0
Its work fine . But i... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
OS:Red Hat Linux 4 86x64
Below is my shell script which is not sending mail to the mail recipient:
#!/bin/bash
export MAILLIST="xyz@yahoo.com"
cd <path_to_the_script_perf_report.sql>
sqlplus / as sysdba @perf_report.sql
if
then
cat <path_to_the_script/*MONTHLY*REPORT*.lst... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a unix server on which mailx is configured . Earlier i was getting proper mails but now some mails are getting stuck and i am not receiving the emails from the server.
I can see the mails in mailq.
Can you please help me with this . How can i receive these emails? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: pratikm23
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
mail.local
mail.local(1M) System Administration Commands mail.local(1M)NAME
mail.local - store mail in a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mail.local [-f sender] [-d] recipient
DESCRIPTION
mail.local reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each user's mail file (mailbox). This program is intended to be
used by sendmail(1M) as a mail delivery agent for local mail. It is not a user interface agent.
Messages are appended to the user's mail file in the /var/mail directory. The user must be a valid user name.
Each delivered mail message in the mailbox is preceded by a "Unix From line" with the following format:
From sender_address time_stamp
The sender_address is extracted from the SMTP envelope address (the envelope address is specified with the -f option).
A trailing blank line is also added to the end of each message.
The mail files are locked with a .lock file while mail is appended.
The mail files are created with mode 660, owner is set to recipient, and group is set to mail. If the ``biff'' service is returned by get-
servbyname(3SOCKET), the biff server is notified of delivered mail. This program also computes the Content-Length: header which will be
used by the mailbox reader to mark the message boundary.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f sender Specifies the "envelope from address" of the message. This flag is technically optional, but should be used.
-d Specifies the recipient of the message. This flag is also optional and is supported here for backward compatibility. That
is, mail.local recipient is the same as mail.local -d recipient.
-l Turn on LMTP mode.
-r from Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility).
-7 Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.
-b Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a mailbox exceeds quota.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
recipient The recipient of the mail message.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
TZ Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful operation.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/tmp/local.XXXXXX temporary files
/tmp/lochd.XXXXXX temporary files
/var/mail/user_name user's mail file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWsndmu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO mail(1), comsat(1M), sendmail(1M), getservbyname(3SOCKET), attributes(5)SunOS 5.10 11 Apr 1997 mail.local(1M)