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Old 12-03-2008
sending mail using mailx command

Hi All,

Please help me regarding sending mails using mailx command in unix.

I will be glad if some one give me the sintax of this. I tried using the below but vain.
mailx -s 'Hi' 'xyz@abc.com'

Regards,
Manas

Last edited by manas6; 12-03-2008 at 06:53 AM..
# 2  
Old 12-03-2008
Friends,

My objective is to send mail using my unix command with simple subject line with no body needed.

please help me on this.

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Manas
# 3  
Old 12-03-2008
syntax is right except it still needs an end of line character to end the command..

you cat try echo " " | mailx -s 'Hi' 'xyz@abc.com'

or mailx -s 'Hi' xyz@abc.com </dev/null

but all this requires proper mail server configuration on your server.. i mean .. user and domain should be recoganizable ..

Try it ..
# 4  
Old 12-04-2008
I use mailx all the time to send output from commands.


/usr/sbin/dmesg | /usr/bin/mailx -s "DMESG - Arielle" csgonan
# 5  
Old 12-05-2008
As stated by csgonan .. see he's passing some output to the mailx through pipe.. here it completes the syntax .. what ever you will pass to mailx with pipe or < , it will go as the body of the mail.... so echo " " will pass a single space character .. or else you can user </dev/null is stdin .. if you do not require body ..
# 6  
Old 12-08-2008
Excellent!!.

This works. Thanks a bunch friend.
 
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