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Shashi

2004-04-11, 3:31 pm

Hi there,

O.S: SCO Unixware

How can I send mails using a shell script? I see that there is a
"sendmail" daemon program running on my machine. But when I type, mail
provo1234@hotmail.com < filename.txt
I get the following error message..
"buildaddr: no mailer in the parsed address saved message to
/home/dead.letter"

What could be the problem? I tried the same command on a solaris
machine and it worked.

Thanks in anticipation.
Shashi
William Park

2004-04-11, 3:31 pm

Shashi <provo1234@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> O.S: SCO Unixware
>
> How can I send mails using a shell script? I see that there is a
> "sendmail" daemon program running on my machine. But when I type, mail
> provo1234@hotmail.com < filename.txt
> I get the following error message..
> "buildaddr: no mailer in the parsed address saved message to
> /home/dead.letter"
>
> What could be the problem?


SCO.

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution/training/migration, Thin-client
Alan Connor

2004-04-11, 3:31 pm

On 10 Apr 2004 00:32:05 GMT, William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Shashi <provo1234@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> SCO.
>
> --
> William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
> Linux solution/training/migration, Thin-client


<chortle>

AC

Heiner Steven

2004-04-14, 2:38 pm

Shashi wrote:

[...]
> O.S: SCO Unixware
>
> How can I send mails using a shell script? [...]


Maybe the following article can help:

http://www.shelldorado.com/articles...ttachments.html

Heiner
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Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo

2004-04-14, 2:38 pm

Try ftp://ftp.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/pub/lhf/matt.tar.gz .
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2004-04-22, 7:34 pm

Shashi wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> O.S: SCO Unixware
>
> How can I send mails using a shell script? I see that there is a
> "sendmail" daemon program running on my machine. But when I type, mail
> provo1234@hotmail.com < filename.txt
> I get the following error message..
> "buildaddr: no mailer in the parsed address saved message to
> /home/dead.letter"
>
> What could be the problem? I tried the same command on a solaris
> machine and it worked.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
> Shashi


I assume you have following on your system: sendmail and uuencode

From your shell script:

{
echo "From: Your Name <yourid@yourdomain.com>"
echo "To: To your user <youruser@domain.com>"
echo "Subject: Whatever you want to put here"
echo ""

echo "If you feel like typing
you can continue for whater length you want"
echo "Use your imagination"

/usr/bin/uuencode myfile.tar.gz myfile.tar.gz

} | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t


You're done. Make it a function or whatever and make it re-usable. No
third party mail clients are necessary (elm, mutt, mailx, or whatever).

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