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

sendmail question

Tirza Kiesler — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:54:26 GMT

How can I add a subject to the follwing command:

sendmail -f tirza.kiesler@hp.com to:tirza.kiesler@hp.com < sbapprv.log

(I tried adding subject:mysubj but get error messages)

Re: sendmail question

Pete Randall — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:02:05 GMT

First, the man page for sendmail states right near the top that "sendmailis not intended as a user interface routine."

I would suggest using mailx instead:

mailx -s tirza.kiesler@hp.com < sbapprv.log

Pete

Re: sendmail question

Dennis Handly — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:25:28 GMT

If it isn't obvious, you need to put the subject in quotes if more than one word:
$ mailx -s "longer subject" tirza.kiesler@hp.com < sbapprv.log

Re: sendmail question

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:26:04 GMT

Shalom,

If you MUST use sendmail:

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

That script does attachments which was why I developed it.

SEP

Re: sendmail question

Tirza Kiesler — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:44:24 GMT

Thanks to all of you, mailx is perfect for my purpose.