Shell Programming and Scripting

OS:
SunOS

I want to send mail to my email id abc@gmail.com using mail command.
How can i achieve it ?

Hi

I tried these steps

Code:

mailx -s hello abc@tc.com

ddf
d
fd
(ctr+c 2 times )

Getting an error message

Code:

Interrupt -- one more to kill letter)
^C"/arbor/dead.letter" 4/9

Try Ctrl-d instead to end the input. You are cancelling the input.



Robin

Itried

Code:

 mailx -s hello rraj@telepacific.com
ddf
dfsfgfdg
EOT

But still no mail in my inbox

Is this within a script or on the command line? Within a script, you would need to open the here document to end it with EOT like this:-

Code:

mailx -s hello rraj@<youremailserver>  <<-EOT
ddf
dfsfgfdg
EOT

.....or you could just:-

Code:

mailx -s hello rraj@<youremailserver>  < /tmp/mailfile

.... and put the message in /tmp/mailfile.

If you are doing it all correctly and there are no errors, you will have to look further down the line. Have a look in your sendmail.cf file for the DS record as a starter. Is that uncommented, and does it relay outgoing mail to a suitable server?

If it does, try to connect to the server manually with telnet your-relay-server 25 and see if you can talk with it. The connection is pretty limited, but you should be able to type helo (not a spelling mistake) to get a response. Just quit to disconnect. This will show if there is an open route to the relay server.

Code:

RBATTE1> telnet u-lpl-relay-01 25
Trying...
Connected to my-relay-01.mydomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-SMTP Relay
220 Warning: no name found in DNS for your host address
helo
250 OK
quit
221 mydomain closing
Connection closed.
RBATTE1>

Beyond that, you would need to see what happens to incoming mail on the relay server. You can check if you have actually sent anything to it by examining the output of mailq



I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK

Hi Rbatte,

Thanks for your descriptive reply.
I want to send mail using a script.This is my first time.Whatever you posted above made little sense to me.I will go through that again and again.
One help from you i need is
Can you tell me step by step from the beginning how to send a mail to my company email.

My company email address is ---> abc@company.com
Below command gives me.
more /etc/resolv.conf

Code:

domain  company.com
nameserver 10.70.3.100
nameserver 10.7.2.80

---------- Post updated at 05:55 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:48 PM ----------

This gives me

Code:

telnet mycompany.com 25[/B]
Trying 172.10.24.0...