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# 1  
Old 04-21-2010
Problem with sending email(to include contents of text file)
Hello,
I was using a shell script for sending contents of a text file(email.report) to different users.
I was using the below command in my script to send email...
Code:
cat email.report | /usr/bin/mailx -s $REQ_SUBJECT -h 5 abc@xyz.com

It was working fine all these days but now all of a sudden it stopped to send emails...
when i treid to send the mail using below command I will get the mail within a sec.
Code:
echo "Hi" | /usr/bin/mailx -s $REQ_SUBJECT -h 5 abc@xyz.com

but when I tried include the contents of the text file(as shown in the first code) the mails are not going.
What may be problem?? Why this happend suddenly when the mails are going properly before.. and how to solve this? Pls pls pls help me...
Regards,
Deepak.
# 2  
Old 04-21-2010
When you try to send the report, do you get any errors from the mailx command? What does your local mail-log say?
# 3  
Old 04-21-2010
What is the size of report file? Did you get any error while trying to email the report file?

-Nithin.
# 4  
Old 04-21-2010
try
Code:
tail email.report | /usr/bin/mailx -s $REQ_SUBJECT -h 5 abc@xyz.com

# 5  
Old 04-21-2010
i didnot get any errors.. but stil not getting mails... i hv used that script for more than 4 months but all of a sudden it is not sending emails!!!
# 6  
Old 04-21-2010
Well, something must have changed between the mailx command and der recipients mailbox. We have to check all steps to see, where things go wrong.

The first step ist the mailx command, which does not output any errors. OK.

The next is your local MDA. Please check its logfile (like /var/log/syslog on Solaris or /var/log/mail.log on Linux). Are there any traces of your mail in this log, especially if the mail was delivered to the next upstream mailserver? A message like "Mail accepted" would indicate, that the problem is not on the sending server.
# 7  
Old 04-21-2010
@hergp..

i go till /var/mail but i cant find syslog or mail.log file inside of it.... Smilie

---------- Post updated at 06:56 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:08 PM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by chakrapani
try
Code:
tail email.report | /usr/bin/mailx -s $REQ_SUBJECT -h 5 abc@xyz.com


tried the above command and got the mail but when i use cat instead of tail i wont get... i want full contents of the mail... pls help...
Last edited by smarty86; 04-22-2010 at 01:08 AM..
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