topic Re: sending emails from script in Operating System - HP-UX

sending emails from script

Ahmed_41 — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:37:47 GMT

Dear All,

i have a script that tries to send an email using the following command, but it seems the sending is not working and generating this error mesg

# echo "hi" | mailx -s "test" a_seddik@yahoo.com
# No local mailer defined: Socket operation on non-socket
QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set

#

i am on HPUX machine 11.11 and i am a client to another mail server, i am running as a client
can someone tell me what is going on ?

Thanks

Re: sending emails from script

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:52:59 GMT

It would seem there is no mail transport installed.

swlist -l product | grep -l sendmail

Here is sendmail if you need it:
http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=SMAIL813

download to say /tmp

cd /tmp
swinstall -s $PWD/ \*

SEP

Re: sending emails from script

harry d brown jr — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:57:59 GMT

You have a broken sendmail.cf file
http://www.aplawrence.com/Unixart/sendmail.html

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harry d brown jr

Re: sending emails from script

harry d brown jr — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 13:01:53 GMT

When you get mail working you can send attachments:

for i in `echo filename1 filename2 filename3 ...` do uuencode $i $i.txt
done|mailx -m -s "SUBJECTHERE" username@whereever.com

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harry d brown jr

Re: sending emails from script

Bejoy C Alias — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:50:06 GMT

Ur sendmail config file sendmail.cf is incomplete , there is no mail delivery agent is defined for local mails, u may need to reinstall sendmail or get one sendmail.cf file from other server if there is one and make some necessary modifications.

Re: sending emails from script

Bejoy C Alias — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:06:52 GMT

check the o/p of 'sendmail -bv root'