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nobody

2007-09-07, 1:32 pm

this might be a easy question but i got after i run this command

command | mail user@domain.com

this works

but command | mail user1@domain.com user2@domain.com

does not work

any idea?


Michael Vilain

2007-09-07, 1:32 pm

In article <fbs2lb$kc4$1@news.Stanford.EDU>,
"nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:

> this might be a easy question but i got after i run this command
>
> command | mail user@domain.com
>
> this works
>
> but command | mail user1@domain.com user2@domain.com
>
> does not work
>
> any idea?


try

command | mail "user1@domain.com user2@domain.com"

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Doug Freyburger

2007-09-07, 7:36 pm

"nobody" <nob...@nobody.com> wrote:
>
> this might be a easy question but i got after i run this command
>
> command | mail u...@domain.com
>
> this works
>
> but command | mail us...@domain.com us...@domain.com
>
> does not work
>
> any idea?


I use mailx instead of mailx and send to either space separated
or comma separated lists.

Chris F.A. Johnson

2007-09-07, 7:36 pm

On 2007-09-07, nobody wrote:
> this might be a easy question but i got after i run this command
>
> command | mail user@domain.com
>
> this works
>
> but command | mail user1@domain.com user2@domain.com
>
> does not work


What does "does not work" mean? What does happen?

Do you get any error messages? IF so, post them.

That command would work with every version of mail I have seen,
though sometimes the command would be mailx rather than mail.

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