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# 1  
Old 06-04-2012
Sending mail from shell script
Hello All,
I m trying to send mail from my unix script,
I have used the below command
Code:
mailx -s 'hi' email address < temp.txt

It is not giving me any error,but I couldn't receive the mail
Can you please help me.

Many Thanks,
Pragyan
Last edited by Franklin52; 06-04-2012 at 07:05 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
# 2  
Old 06-04-2012
try this

Code:
mailx -s 'hi' -a temp.txt email address

Last edited by zaxxon; 06-04-2012 at 07:11 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 3  
Old 06-04-2012
If mailx doesn't show any error, it seems your mail setup might have problems to get the mail sent.
Check the log files of your Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) which might be something like sendmail, postfix, exim, ...
# 4  
Old 06-04-2012
Thanks for the reply.
I think -a is for atachment,though I have tried,bu that is also not working.
Only issue i have is it is not giving me any error,but I am not getting the mail in my inbox,also I have checked whether SMTP is configured or not,and I think it is configured.
Anyone knows any other rason for this?

Thanks,
Pragyan
# 5  
Old 06-04-2012
Not sure what "I have checked whether SMTP is configured or not,and I think it is configured." means but what I tried to tell you:
  1. Identify your MTA/mail daemon (sendmail, postfix, exim, ...) with something like ps -ef| grep -i <mail daemon's name in here>.
  2. Find it's log files, probably somewhere below /var/log. Could be a file with the name "mail" in it or maybe a subdirectory with the name of your mail daemon.
  3. Open the log with tail -f <mail.log.file>.
  4. Try to send your mail in another terminal window and check out what is written into the log.
  5. Try to solve the problem, google or write here posting the error output
# 6  
Old 06-04-2012
what is your O.S ?
and this ?
Code:
netstat -anlp|grep ":25"

# 7  
Old 06-04-2012
And if you got lsof, you can try something like this:
Code:
$ lsof -i :25
COMMAND  PID        USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
exim4   1978 Debian-exim    3u  IPv4   6681      0t0  TCP localhost:smtp (LISTEN)
exim4   1978 Debian-exim    4u  IPv6   6682      0t0  TCP ip6-localhost:smtp (LISTEN)

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