topic Re: Empty subject when using mailx. in Operating System - HP-UX

Empty subject when using mailx.

Adnane_1 — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:16:36 GMT

Hello Folks,
I getting an empty email when using the following command in a Korn shell script:

subject="Testing ..."
echo "Subject =${subject}"
mailx -s"${subject}" myemail
Anyone can help on this?

Adnane

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

James R. Ferguson — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:52:21 GMT

Hi Adnane:

By redirecting /dev/null to STDIN you got exactly what you asked: an empty email body.

You could redirect another file, instead, or you could type your email body message at the command line and type CNTL_D (end-of-text) to signal its end. For example:

mailx -s "Testing..." myuser
This is line-1
and this is line-2
of a three-line message

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:24:11 GMT

Try with this,

subject="Testing..."
echo "Subject= ${subject}"

mailx -s "$subject" root@localhost mail

You will get that recent mail with Testing... as subject.

hth.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Adnane_1 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:38:30 GMT

Guys,
I getting an empty subject. The /dev/null is intentional to get an empty email but why the subject is empty?

Thanks.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:50:59 GMT

What you are getting with sendmail?

# subject="check..."
# echo "Subject: ${subject}" | sendmail root@localhost
# mail

hth.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Pat Lieberg — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 08:05:28 GMT

Take out the () in your mailx line. It should read:

mailx -s "$subject" myemail

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Gavin Clarke — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:58:46 GMT

There seems to be a space missing between the -s and the "${subject}".

I also get the feeling that Pat is right and the {} need to go too.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Matthew_50 — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:20:11 GMT

Hi, Adnane,

I think the second line is not necessary, simply use

#!/bin/ksh
subject="Testing ..."
mailx -s ${subject} who@myemail.com < /dev/null

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Adnane_1 — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:13:46 GMT

Hi Folks,
I tried your suggestions and Iâ m getting the same problem (the sendmail as mention by HTH did not work for me, I think the setup for the DS entry is messing in the sendmail.cf file).
However I found out that when I submit the job my self I got the the email and the subject but when the scripts is submitted by the scheduler MAESTRO (scheduler program from IBM that runs under UNIX HP) I got the email but not the subject.

Did anyone have an idea ?

Thanks to all for your help.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Pat Lieberg — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 07:50:49 GMT

It sounds to me like the $subject is not being interpretted by the script and might be interpretted by the shell, which is evaluating to nothing and therefore, no subject.

As mentioned in Matthew's post, do you have the #!/bin/ksh line at the top of your script?

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Adnane_1 — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:50:18 GMT

Hi Folks,
Yes Pat I do have #!/bin/ksh.

Just to mention that my script is working perfectly in the DEV server, the problem occur on another UNIX HP server.

Thanks.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Pat Lieberg — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:56:46 GMT

I'm kind of at a loss what to try next, but you might look at the permissions of both the script and the /bin/ksh file.

Sorry I wasn't more help.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Rita C Workman — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 13:17:29 GMT

hmmm... I just did this:

#subject=Testing...
#echo $subject

..it echo'd properly..

#mailx -s $subject rworkman@mydomain.com < /dev/null

and then I

#mail -s $subject rworkman@mydomain.com
.

...and they both went to my email reflecting a subject of ... Testing...

Yeppers...drop the {}

Rgrds,
Rita

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Dave La Mar — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:56:12 GMT

Adnane-
Though I feel your question on the blank subject has been answered, I am attaching a list of different uses of mailx that are used in out shop. Should you still be having a problem, try an example from that attached.

Best of luck.

Regards,

dl

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Adnane_1 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:05:25 GMT

Thanks to all of you.

I removed the /dev/null because it seems causing the problem in the subject.

Now I'm using the mailx command :

echo "$EMAIL_SUBJ" | mailx -s"$EMAIL_SUBJ" "$recipient"

Adnane.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Adnane_1 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:06:29 GMT

Removed the /dev/null

and using the mailx command as:

echo "$EMAIL_SUBJ" | mailx -s"$EMAIL_SUBJ" "$recipient"

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:08:08 GMT

Which mailx version you are using. I have tried with /dev/null it is working for me. Ok. You are decided to leave /dev/null. ;) It is not needed at all.

hth.

Re: Empty subject when using mailx.

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:09:35 GMT

Adnane,

I hope you are a new number. Try to assin points to those spent time with you. Hope you know the way to give points.

thx.