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# 8  
Old 12-23-2005
Dear friend,

I have same problem

i want to send may to my yahoo account.

I have given following syntax in command prompt

mail -s "hello" xyz@yahoo.com

but the mail is not executing.

please help

regards
rajan
# 9  
Old 12-23-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by rajan_ka1
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but the mail is not executing.
any error message?
# 10  
Old 12-23-2005
no

but next command prompt is not coming
# 11  
Old 12-23-2005
try using -v option to look into more details
# mail -v -s "hello" xyz@yahoo.com
# 12  
Old 12-23-2005
same here.

If i exit ( ctrl + c) then it throws a message like this:

^Cmail: Mail saved in /svm_wl1/billing/work/svm_wl1/dead.letter

contents of dead.letter are:

From svm_wl1 Thu May 27 16:07 IST 2004
Content-Type:
Content-Length:




From svm_wl1 Tue May 31 12:54 IST 2005
From svm_wl1 Tue May 31 12:55 IST 2005
From svm_wl1 Tue May 31 14:51 IST 2005
From svm_wl1 Fri Dec 23 15:24 IST 2005
From svm_wl1 Fri Dec 23 16:22 IST 2005
From svm_wl1 Fri Dec 23 16:32 IST 2005


thats it...

i haven't got any mail for confirmation.

Regards
Abhijeet
# 13  
Old 12-23-2005
mail is not going to perticular recepient

regadrs
rajan
# 14  
Old 12-23-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by rajan_ka1
no

but next command prompt is not coming
maybe u can try this:

# cat somefile | mail -s "hello" xyz@yahoo.com

i'm sure u'll get the prompt & make sure u can send email out from the machine. maybe u can look into mail log to see what went wrong.
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