Shell Programming and Scripting

Further to my post #4.

The file cc_list can also contain a list of recipients prefixed by "~t".
The default behaviour is quite clever in that it compares the addressee on the mailx command line with both "~c" and "~t" lists to work out whether to show the addressee in the To list or the CC list.

Code:

~c tom@abc.com
~c dick@abc.com
~c harry@abc.com
~t jack@abc.com
~t jill@abc.com
~t hill@abc.com

If you accidentally specify the same email address as both "~c" and "~t" that address will only ever appear in the To list.

Don't forget to run one "mailx" command per different addressee. (I am assuming default sendmail behaviour).

Thanks Methyl,

However how can I specify the sender address.

The sender is the sender account in unix. Try sending yourself a mail.

Reading between the lines, sorry I will not publish how to forge the sender address.

I have some confusion "sender address" is the mailid or the unix os user....
if I will send mail from command line mailx then the sender addres is the server host name, however i need to send mail having a particular group mail id configured in the system.

Is there something like I have to login with a particular mail id /password and then if I will send mail then my particular login id will be used as sender address.

This has gone far beyond the syntax error in post #1 and your requirement is changing.

I do not understand your most recent post.

If you are trying to spoof the source address or supply an email display name I don't know how to do this with "mailx". When sending from "mailx" the exact sender email address which will be seen in the mail reader depends on how your "sendmail" is configured, the unix account name of the sender and whether that account name is "Trusted" in the sendmail configuration. There are inbuilt safegurds to prevent forged mail.

Other correspondants may know?

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At you now seem to have switched to using "sendmail" direct this is a whole new ballgame. I was disturbed that you posted the same sort of erroneous "mailx" commands that started this thread.

https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-ex...l-problem.html

Might be a good time to sit down and document your requirement?

yes I started with mailx...my requirement was to send mail with to,cc,subject,body,attachment and sender's address....it is working absolutely fine except the sender's address part...so for the time being i am using the solution with sendmail option ....