Solaris

I am having trouble with the mailx command. I have looked many places but can't find the answer.

A user at work wants his application to send an email with the Outlook Importance set to high.

It looks like I need to modify the MIME headers in order to accomplish this.

Is this possible using the mailx command?

See this thread
Maybe Reborg can give an example?

(And next time, try the Search utility)

But I DID do a search. That thread wasn't helpful.

I still haven't found a solution I can use on Solaris yet. I may try to do something directly with sendmail using perl.

Any sendmail examples using perl would be a great help.

Thanks!

OK. Here's the solution I found using perl (this is a modification of a script I found through Google)...


#!/usr/bin/perl

unless(open (MAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t")) {
print "error.\n";
warn "Error starting sendmail: $!";
}
else{
print MAIL "From: myemail\@mydomain.com\n";
print MAIL "To: myemail\@mydomain.com\n";
print MAIL "Importance: High\n\n";
print MAIL "Subject: test subject\n\n";
print MAIL "test mail message";
close(MAIL) || warn "Error closing mail: $!";
print "Mail sent.\n";
}


Also, Make sure the path to your sendmail is correct.

It is interesting that you say it the thread indicated to you was not helpful, since what I suggested in the other thread is exactly what you did in the end.

RTM: Sure thing, I had meant to post in the other thread at the time, but forgot to update my post:

It can actually be as simple as:

Code:

(echo "Importance: High" ; cat /my_mail_file) | /usr/lib/sendmail someuser@somewhere.com

reborg,

I take that back. It was ultimately helpful.

It was unhelpful with regard to the mailx question, which I was still trying to use at the time I wrote that post.

But it was VERY HELPFUL because of the sendmail hint.

Hopefully this thread will help others now that the sendmail example is included.

Thanks for your sendmail hint and example!

Robert