topic Re: mailx question in Operating System - HP-UX

mailx question

Hunki — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:17:31 GMT

mailx -s "Subject" email@mail.com

How do I end the above statement if I dont have a file to send.

eg. Generally when I have a file I do a redirection but when I dont have one then how do I send a mailx.

Re: mailx question

Court Campbell — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:22:10 GMT

mailx -s "Subject" email@mail.com < /dev/null

Re: mailx question

Olivier Masse — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:23:51 GMT

Try:

mailx -s "test" email@email.com
But mailx complains and this kind of null mail seems to be filtered by our corporate e-mail server.

Instead you can do:

echo "" | mailx -s "test" email@email.com

Re: mailx question

Court Campbell — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:26:27 GMT

> But mailx complains and this kind of null mail seems to be filtered by our corporate e-mail server.

mailx -s "Subject" email@mail.com < /dev/null > /dev/null

hehe

Re: mailx question

Hunki — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:28:48 GMT

Thanks!

Re: mailx question

Dennis Handly — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:46:34 GMT

Besides echo, you can of course type something in and then use "." or EOD (control-D).
Or use a here document:
$ mailx -s "Subject" email@mail.com <mail body
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