topic sendmail in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail

Richard_115 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:26:59 GMT

Can anybody help why mailx is not working?
This is what I type at the prompt.
mailx -stest myusername.com < cat filename

Re: sendmail

RAC_1 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:32:35 GMT

What does mail.log file say??

Re: sendmail

Doug Burton — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:32:47 GMT

What error do you get?

Re: sendmail

Jeff Schussele — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:39:08 GMT

Hi Richard,

I do the command first & pipe it into mailx - as follows:

cat filename | mailx -stest myusername.com

otherwise you get a "cat: cannot open" error msg.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: sendmail

Richard_115 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:46:02 GMT

Thanks all for the input. I think I guess what the problem is from mail.log. It has to do with my DNS server. It was changed. Thanks all.

Re: sendmail

Michael Miller_13 — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:49:49 GMT

Richard,

You don't have to use cat when redirecting a file. You can just run the command like this.
mailx -s test myusername.com