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# 1  
Old 06-06-2011
sendmail script throwing an error "No recipient addresses found in header"
Hi,

I am using following code to send an e-mail with attachment and body.

Code:
echo "To: user1@mail.com,user2@mail.com" > mail.tmp
echo "Cc: user3@mail.com,user4@mail.com" >> mail.tmp
echo "From: group@mail.com" >> mail.tmp
echo "Subject: my report" >> mail.tmp
echo "please see as attached" >> mail.tmp

uuencode /path/report.csv report.csv >> mail.tmp
cat mail.tmp | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t


But when I am executing it, its throwing me an error message saying "No recipient addresses found in header"

My OS details:
Linux 2.6.9-89.35.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 22:29:01 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Can someone please help how I can fix this?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 06-06-2011
Maybe it wants a space after the comma? Does it work for one address per line?
# 3  
Old 06-07-2011
DGPickett,

Unfortunatly No...I tried with one e-mail account and its giving me the same error message.
# 4  
Old 06-07-2011
I seem to recall the order was "Received: ", "Date: ". "From:", "Subject: ", "To: ", in email files/streams I viewed. Maybe it is fussy.
# 5  
Old 06-07-2011
That also didnt work Smilie ...now I tried with a different script

Code:
export MAILTO="user1@mail.com"
export MAILCC="user2@mail.com"
export FROM="group@mail.com"
export SUBJECT="My report"
export BODY="/path/matter.html"
export ATTACH="/path/report.csv"
(
 echo "From: $FROM"
 echo "To: $MAILTO"
 echo "Cc: $MAILCC"
 echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"
 echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
 echo 'Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-q1w2e3r4t5"'
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
 echo "Content-Type: text/html"
 echo "Content-Disposition: inline"
 cat $BODY
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5'
 echo 'Content-Type: application; name="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
 echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"
 echo 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'$(basename $ATTACH)'"'
 uuencode --base64 $ATTACH $(basename $ATTACH)
 echo '---q1w2e3r4t5--'
) | /usr/sbin/sendmail -F $MAILTO -t $MAILCC

It works fine, but the only problem is body is missing whenever the e-mail is sent. Can you help?
# 6  
Old 06-07-2011
Maybe it uses blank lines like http to separate header from data?
MIME - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mime Fun Fact:

Quote:
Although MIME was designed mainly for SMTP, the content types defined by MIME standards are also of importance in communication protocols outside of email, such as HTTP for the World Wide Web. Servers insert the MIME header at the beginning of any Web transmission. Clients use this content type or media type header to select an appropriate viewer application for the type of data the header indicates. Some of these viewers are built into the Web client or browser (for example, almost all browsers come with GIF and JPEG image viewers as well as the ability to handle HTML files).
# 7  
Old 06-08-2011
Well my first code worked when I changed the mail path to /tmp/mail.tmp

anyways thanks for your help.
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