Mailx

[Andrew Penning_1]

I am trying to send a mail to an external address using mailx, but when I try to use the @ symbol it just changes to a new shell. I can run the same thing on a Sun box with no probs. Have I got to change some environment variable somewhere?

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Andrew,

How are trying to send it?

If it's a text file try

cat filename | mailx -s "Subject Line" user@company.com

If it's binary try

uuencode filename filename.bin | mailx -s "Subject Line" user@company.com

HTH,
Jeff

[David Burgess]

Type alias and press enter to see if @ is aliased.

Also mailx -s "Subject line" user@domain.com < filename will work.

HTH,

Dave.

[Rodney Hills]

Check your key mapping.

Enter "stty -a"

and see if "@" is mapped to something like "kill", "intr", "susp".

If it is then map another character to these functions,
^C for intr
^U for kill
^Z for susp
etc

-- Rod Hills

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

Try running 'stty -a'. It sounds like you might have @ set as your kill character.

Change it with 'stty kill '

Regards,
John

[Paul Thomson_2]

Andrew,
You could also try making a text file (filename) then sending as
mailx -s "SUBJECT name@domain.com < filename

If you are having an issue with the '@' symbol you could try holding down alt and then pressing 64 which should display the ascii character which in this case is @.

Cheers
Paul

[Paul Thomson_2]

Andrew,
You could also try making a text file (filename) then sending as
mailx -s "SUBJECT" name@domain.com < filename

If you are having an issue with the '@' symbol you could try holding down alt and then pressing 64 which should display the ascii character which in this case is @.

Cheers
Paul