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Old 01-20-2010
Mailx Not sending

How can I check to see how/why my mailx program is not sending?

/var has enough room.

-Thanks

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I tested the mailx to send with this command:

echo "This is going to be body of the mail" |mailx -s "FOR TESTING" "abvc@xyz.edu"

And it works. But my scheduled mail is not working.
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Old 01-20-2010
can you provide your scheduled mailx? how are have you scheduled? is it a cronjob?
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