topic Re: Sendmail message ID in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail message ID

Stuart Powell — Fri, 17 May 2002 14:09:05 GMT

I am using mailx in a script to send out a TIF file to external customers. However I want to track the message to ensure that it makes it to the intended customer. Is there a way to have sendmail return the message identifier to mailx when the script sends a message so that I can track the message's status?

Re: Sendmail message ID

Helen French — Fri, 17 May 2002 14:17:29 GMT

Hi Stuart:

You can keep track of this by looking at the mail log file - /var/adm/syslog/mail.log. This file will give you the sender, receiver and the delivery status of a prticular message.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: Sendmail message ID

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Fri, 17 May 2002 14:21:38 GMT

Hi

Message tracking depends up what os / mail system the mail goes through.
In house outlook to outlook OK but for advanced feature like "Delivered" and "Opened" when your mail goes into the big bad world the answer is once again:-

It depends.

Paula

Re: Sendmail message ID

Stuart Powell — Fri, 17 May 2002 14:22:42 GMT

Shiju,

That is the ID I want to track. However, I may have a quick sequence of multiple messages to the same user. So I need to be able to track each message by the send mail ID.

Re: Sendmail message ID

Helen French — Fri, 17 May 2002 14:28:01 GMT

Hi Stuart:

Sorry if it didn't help, but the mail.log file carries a unique ID for each mail you send from the system. I thought may be that ID will help you tracking the information.

HTH,
Shiju

Re: Sendmail message ID

MAD_2 — Fri, 17 May 2002 16:12:03 GMT

I know this is probably an addition to traffic and some extra routing, but how about routing it through an Outlook account (creating a rule for your messages -- hopefully there is a way for you to establish some kind of rule) and then setting the Outlook account to track messages for you!

Re: Sendmail message ID

benoit Bruckert — Tue, 21 May 2002 07:27:00 GMT

Try the -v option,
(verbose - debug), by this way you will know if your message is queued or sent which is a first level !

hope it may help
Benoit

Re: Sendmail message ID

Stuart Powell — Tue, 21 May 2002 11:45:27 GMT

I appreciate everyone's input. I worked with HP's response center people and changed the plan of attack. Instead of staying with mailx we changed to sendmail. I embedded the following string in mailing script:
(
echo "From: baaninv"
echo "To: "$ADDR
echo "Subject: "$SUBJECT
echo "This is a test message with an attachement"
#uuencode /opt/aetfax/merkur/stmt.txt sample.tiff
cat /opt/aetfax/merkur/stmt.txt;uuencode $TFILE $SUB1$SUB2".tif") | /usr/sbin/sendmail -d7.1 $ADDR Fax_Admin@aetinc.com
The variable $ADDR is the intended desitnation
$SUBJECT is the character string that we want to show up on the subject line of the message.
$TFILE is a TIF file that we convert with uuencode to an attachment name determined by $SUB1 & $SUB2 (one of which is an invoice number).
We tested this today and the attachment can be read. The data returned by this message sequence includes the sendmail message ID from SENDMAIL on the host.

Once again, thanks for the input.