As was suggested early, assemble the mail header yourself. Use the more primitive mail or sendmail rather than mailx.
In one line:
The EMAIL_RECEPIENT (correct spelling RECIPIENT) is mentioned twice; mail's command line argument goes to the envelope (represented as inititial "To " line in an SMTP mail, before the header follows with the "To: " line.)
As a reader-friendly multi-line script:
Here is a question I have, maybe someone can help me out. I am new to this UNIX thing. :)
I have a file called elist. In this file is a list of 25 email adresses. How can I write a simple command line for that will read the names of the file and send it to each of the email addys. Can I... (2 Replies)
Is there a size limit on the file that can be sent using mailx?
I'm trying
mailx -s "alertlog" tome@work < /dir/my.log
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Additionally, I would like the option of mailing just the last 100... (1 Reply)
Hi unix lovers,
I have some problem with using mailx. I want to send mail as per the instructions in a file. The mail does not reach to CC recepients.
To get a clearer picture, this is what I am typing on unix prompt.
$
$ mailx ashishp@suntech.com < mail.txt
$
And my mail.txt looks... (7 Replies)
I'm using 11i v3.
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The other question is:
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hi All,
i want to email to abc@abc.com which will be in "to" and to def@def.com which will be in "cc".
i tried like this:
mailx -s "Total Collection" abc@abc.com -c def@def.com
but i took error :(
How can i success?
Thanx so much.
---------- Post updated at 08:19 AM... (1 Reply)
Hello Folks,
I recently screwed up and accidently deleted a lot of very necessary system files on my HP-UX test machine at home during a 'cleanup' of disk space. I think I have no option other than to reinstall the OS now. Its not something I'd planned to do or that I've done before but... (3 Replies)
Hello all,
I've been woking on Solaris and Linux (Red Hat) so far but now I've inherited an HP-UX system and having minor issues with syntax...Appreciate if you could help me out here..
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if I use mail command also Im getting same error.
$ cat script2.sh
while ps | ./pwtst
do... (5 Replies)
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Discussion started by: mohtashims
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LEARN ABOUT POSIX
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)