Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear all,
how can i send mail using mailx or mail command?do i need to configure anything for sending mail?please help me.Its urgent.
the version i use is
Linux TDM 2.4.21-4.EL #1 Fri Oct 3 18:13:58 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Thanks
Regards,
Pankaj

Hey

YOu don;t need to configure any thing, but ya make sure that your varsion have reference to command mail or mailx.

cat file1 | mailx -s $Subject $MailRecievers

file1 having the contents to be mailed.
$Subject having title of the mail
$MailRecievers haveing names of the mail recievers.

or

echo "Alter, Boss is there !! " | mailx -s "Boss" "abc.com"

Hope you got this !!
Otherwise goto "man mail" and explore it !

For sending the mails thru CLI via mail and mailx, You must have SMTP server. If you have SMTP Server you can use mail or mailx to sending the mails.

mail -s "Subject Whatever you want" user@your-domain.com < File_Name

File_Name file is contains contents for your mail body.


~~~Sanjay~~~

Dear Sanjay,
thanks for your kind help but i have tried with you have suggested but not working
i have triedmail -s "test" pankaj.choudhury@tcs.com < hi
but its not working.

thanks
regards
pankaj

Lets try step by step

1:- First check do you have SMTP service on in your Linux/UnixBox or not
Then create one file
> echo " Hi this is just for testing" >/tmp/testmail

Then send it via mail command

> mail -s "Testing" pankaj.choudhury@tcs.com < /tmp/testmail

Try to see the logs

> tail -n 50 /var/log/messages

If it will not work send me the log mesages, so I will suggest you somthing in better way

So Dun worry !!! Start

~~~Sanjay Tripathi~~~

Dear Sanjay,
as you suggested me i'm sending you the log

Sep 17 21:04:54 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/17 21:04:54, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 17 21:04:54 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 17 21:04:54 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.182.16, reporting an IP address of 172.17.182.16.
Sep 17 21:29:55 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/17 21:29:55, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 17 21:29:55 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 17 21:29:55 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.182.16, reporting an IP address of 172.17.182.16.
Sep 17 21:54:55 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/17 21:54:55, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 17 21:54:55 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 17 21:54:55 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.182.16, reporting an IP address of 172.17.182.16.
Sep 18 00:44:57 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/18 00:44:57, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 18 00:44:57 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 18 00:44:57 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.181.234, reporting an IP address of 172.17.181.234.
Sep 18 03:59:57 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/18 03:59:57, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 18 03:59:57 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 18 03:59:57 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.182.16, reporting an IP address of 172.17.182.16.
Sep 18 04:49:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/18 04:49:58, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 18 04:49:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 18 04:49:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.182.16, reporting an IP address of 172.17.182.16.
Sep 18 05:24:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/18 05:24:58, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 18 05:24:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 18 05:24:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.181.234, reporting an IP address of 172.17.181.234.
Sep 18 06:39:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/18 06:39:58, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 18 06:39:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 18 06:39:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.182.16, reporting an IP address of 172.17.182.16.
Sep 18 07:39:59 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/18 07:39:59, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 18 07:39:59 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 18 07:39:59 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.182.16, reporting an IP address of 172.17.182.16.
Sep 18 08:04:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/18 08:04:58, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 18 08:04:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 18 08:04:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.181.234, reporting an IP address of 172.17.181.234.
Sep 18 09:29:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: [2007/09/18 09:29:58, 0] nmbd/nmbd_namequery.c:query_name_response(101)
Sep 18 09:29:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: query_name_response: Multiple (2) responses received for a query on subnet 172.17.181.187 f
Sep 18 09:29:58 TDM nmbd[8255]: This response was from IP 172.17.181.234, reporting an IP address of 172.17.181.234.
Sep 18 09:49:11 TDM su(pam_unix)[9357]: session opened for user tdmscrdr by tdmscrdr(uid=504)
Sep 18 10:09:18 TDM smbd[19543]: [2007/09/18 10:09:18, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(850)
Sep 18 10:09:18 TDM smbd[19543]: 01hw084873 (172.17.180.191) couldn't find service .
Sep 18 11:14:46 TDM su(pam_unix)[12282]: session opened for user oracle by tdmscrdr(uid=504)
Sep 18 12:02:10 TDM su(pam_unix)[12282]: session closed for user oracle
Sep 18 12:16:28 TDM su(pam_unix)[15689]: session opened for user oracle by tdmscrdr(uid=504)
Sep 18 12:35:51 TDM su(pam_unix)[15689]: session closed for user oracle
Sep 18 13:01:58 TDM su(pam_unix)[18492]: session opened for user oracle by tdmscrdr(uid=504)
Sep 18 13:03:23 TDM su(pam_unix)[18492]: session closed for user oracle
Sep 18 14:36:38 TDM su(pam_unix)[22812]: session opened for user oracle by tdmscrdr(uid=504)
Sep 18 14:36:49 TDM su(pam_unix)[22812]: session closed for user oracle
Sep 18 14:37:22 TDM su(pam_unix)[22941]: authentication failure; logname=tdmscrdr uid=504 euid=0 tty= ruser=tdmscrdr rhost=
Sep 18 14:37:31 TDM su(pam_unix)[22944]: session opened for user oracle by tdmscrdr(uid=504)
Sep 18 14:59:17 TDM su(pam_unix)[23858]: session opened for user oracle by tdmscrdr(uid=504)
Sep 18 15:42:45 TDM su(pam_unix)[26395]: authentication failure; logname=tdmscrdr uid=503 euid=0 tty= ruser=tdmscrndr rhost=
Sep 18 15:48:05 TDM su(pam_unix)[27317]: session opened for user root by tdmscrdr(uid=503)
Sep 18 15:50:57 TDM su(pam_unix)[27317]: session closed for user root

thnx
regards,
Pankaj

It seems to me your Linux/Unix box very busy so just give me the logs

grep -i "pankaj.choudhury@tcs.com" /var/log/messages

Because I didn't get any logs related to your SMTP, So send me the output of above command.