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Hello,

When i am using mail command like this:
mail -r prashant.aggarwal@xx.com -s "hiiii" prashant.aggarwal@xx.com < Content.txt i am abl eto dend a mail. Content.txt is a file from which contents are being reda

But when i am trying to execute it thru a shell scipt like this it's giving
The flags you gave make no sense since you're not sending mail. The strange part is still sending the mail to me as desired, why is this message coming?

The shell script is this:

while read line
do
mail -r prashant.aggarwal@xx.com -s "The CBE Alert Processor is not working in Development" $line < Content.txt
done < MailTo.txt

MailTo.txt contains email id's to which i want to send mail. Each id starts from new line

Please guide me where is the problem

Thanks

Perhaps your MailTo.txt file contains a blank line?

Since you can specify multiple email addresses on the command line, why not just:

Code:

 mail -r prashant.aggarwal@xx.com -s "The CBE Alert Processor is not working in Development" $(MailTo.txt) < Content.txt

mail -r
Means READ mail.

Please elaborate on what you are trying to do.

From man mail on SLES 9:

Code:

       -r address
              Sets  the From address. Overrides any from variable
              specified in environment or startup  files.   Tilde
              escapes  are  disabled.  The -r address options are
              passed to the mail transfer agent  unless  SMTP  is
              used.

Not always, it varies (considerably) from OS to OS.