Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
I am using sendmail command to send mail

This is the command i am using

cat <filename> | /usr/lib/sendmail -v <emailid>

I will put the contents in the file as body of the email

I want the subject also to be printed in the email

I want to know whether email has been successfully sent or not
to track in the log file

can anyone help me in this

Thanks in advance

Bit late now but the usual method for seeing if a command succeeded is to catch the return code, e.g.:

Code:

command
RESULT=$?
echo RESULT = ${RESULT}

If the return code is zero then the command succeeded.

Another test you could do is to run mailq and ensure the queue is empty.