I had the same problem. Now after some reconfig I re-wrote an excisting script. This is what I re-use for each program that needs to mail something.
Hope you understand it a little, it's a cool one.
Regs David added code tags for readability --oombera
Hi All,
I am new to unix. I have created a cron job, that sends mail using sendmail utility. Am facing a unique problem while making a cron job for this script.
In the script I append a file to my mail using 'cat' command.
cat $report >> $mailMsg
& this $mailMsg is used as mail... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I am new to shell scripting and thus any help will be highly appreciated. I need to write a K shell script where in the email sending feature should be handled by sendmail utility and I have come up with the following :
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "This is a test mailest mail" | /usr/lib/sendmail... (4 Replies)
hi all,
i'm trying to use sendmail to send a message in html format with attachments but having some issues with the attachments. below is my code.
ATTACH1="/export/home/adshocker/attach.prog"
ATTACH_NAME1=${ATTACH1##*/}
echo "ATTACH_NAME1=$ATTACH_NAME1"... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am building a web interface to run a series of shell scripts that reside on the web server. The bash script are written such that they can be used independently for the task they are meant for, or the same scripts can be run from this web UI. The scripts are mostly for doing software... (1 Reply)
Hi,
i've got a problem with a sendmail script, which sends HTML mails. Some mail will rejected by the mail server, because the fqdn doesn't exist.
Where can i set the sender-domainname by sendmail?
My mail server say: "Sender address rejected: Domain not found;", which is correct... (3 Replies)
Hi friends,
I want to converting a task ,of making few words in my task mail bold and underlined sometimes, automated through sendmail.
I have never used sendmail/mailx before.
What i want is my ouput which looks like below:
+++++++++++++++
DETAILS: sqlid:6mbiosdfsdff parsing_schema_name:... (1 Reply)
I am facing a peculiar problem in AIX 6.1
I can execute sendmail command using the following script
sendmail -f sender -v recepient
Body of email
^dThe command executes successfully and mail is sent to the intended recepient
but when I try to use the attached script, the mail is not sent... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I have read about sendmail running as 2 separate process.
1 as a MSP, and the other as the real daemon or MTA.
In my current configuration,
the sendmail-client is disabled.
Both submit.cf and sendmail.cf are left as default untouch
I do not specified any mailhost... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a web server (apache, php-fpm) with several vhosts sending mail through php. In order to avoid IP blacklisting when spam is sent by a domain i'm looking for a way to setup a rate limit for outgoing mail and when this limit is reached I want to receive an email warning me that a... (1 Reply)
Hello,
Kindly guide.
SendMail function on my script is not working, but it works manually.
Any better way to handle the script is appreciable.
#!/bin/sh
GetHostConnection()
{
truncate --size 0 /home/web/for_mail.out
while read -r lines ;
do
ip=`echo $lines | awk '{print... (9 Replies)
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from
from(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands from(1B)NAME
from - display the sender and date of newly-arrived mail messages
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/from [-s sender] [username]
DESCRIPTION
The from utility prints out the mail header lines in your mailbox file to show you who your mail is from. If username is specified, user-
name's mailbox is examined instead of your own.
OPTIONS
The following option is supported:
-s sender Only display headers for mail sent by sender.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of from when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
FILES
/var/mail/*
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWscpu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO biff(1B), mail(1B), attributes(5), largefile(5)SunOS 5.11 28 Jan 2004 from(1B)