topic Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem in Operating System - HP-UX

mailing with attachment outside domain problem

renarios — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 07:52:25 GMT

Hi,

I have two functions in a shell script which mails an attachment. The first one gives a notification to me if the script was executed successfully (displayed below)
The second function mails a data file to several people.
The script is executed from a HP-UX 11.11 box

function f_success_mail
{
subject=" Script ${SCRIPTFILE} executed successfully"

printf "\a \n ${subject} \n \n" >> ${LOGFILE}

logalias=verslag.log
# echo "Convert file to DOS mode..."
unix2dos ${LOGFILE} ${LOGFILE} 2>/dev/null

# Send the E-mail message...
/usr/bin/mailx -m -s "${subject}" ${SUCCESS_ADDRESS} <<-EOF

Hi,

Script ${SCRIPTFILE} runned successfully.

See attachment: ${logalias}
~< ! uuencode ${LOGFILE} ${logalias}

This email message was created automatically by UNIX

~.
EOF
}

The problem is: The second function does will only be delivered to people inside our domain, but it will not be delivered outside our domain.

The mail.log on HP-UX tells me: “Message accepted for delivery”
In the maillog of the smart relay host (a linux can) the following line occurs:
Apr 8 08:45:34 hrn20 sendmail[14100]: j386jBl9014079: to=, delay=00:00:23, xdelay=00:00:06, mailer=esmtp, pri=175848, relay=mx1.bit.nl. [xxx.xxx.xx.xxx], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error.
I think that the oracle@srv-h.foo.nl

If I use the -r option (return address) the mail will be sent without the attachment, because the -r option disables all tilde commands. If I send the mail without the –r option the mail probably gets rejected by the mail relay server.

Does anyone have a good advice (I prefer a solution though)?

Rena

Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem

Peter Godron — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:16:45 GMT

Rena,
as a start, please have a look at:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=72171
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=195304
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=81309
Regards

Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem

renarios — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:29:10 GMT

Hi Peter, thanks for your quick reply!

I already found those threads in another forum, but since i am DBA and do not have access as root of the relay host, I first hope to find the solution in my syntax instead of annoying our system administrator with sendmail configuration changes, because he is very busy with another project and I yet don't want to die.

Cheers,

Renarios

Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem

RAC_1 — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:37:53 GMT

The one problem that I noticed with with your syntax is as follows. your here doc start with -EOF and ends with EOF. Shouldn't it start and end with same word?? EOF and EOF.

Other than this there seems to be no error with syntax.

Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem

renarios — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:52:35 GMT

Hi RAC,

The -EOF escape leading tabs in the second EOF. That's not the problem, but only for nicely identing scripts. Some people love it, some hate it like their mother in law...

The syntax is OK, but let me trie to explain. When you mail like:

mailx -r ${reply_adress} -m -s "${subject}" ${address} <<-EOF
Hey dude,

blah blah

Here is the attachment: ${alias}
~< ! uuencode ${file} ${alias}

Cheers man!

~.
EOF

The tildes [~] are disabled (see man mailx) and no attachment will be sent.

When you mail without the -r option the mail somewhere dissapeares.
What I like to know is: Can I replace the tilde commands with something else? i.e.
hubbabubba ~< ! uuencode ${file} ${alias}
...
hubbabubba.

Thanks,

Renarios

Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem

Dave La Mar — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:54:03 GMT

Rena -
Didn't look at the other url threads, but you should get your SA to put an entry in your send mail configuration file for the mail server in your environment.

This was the edit our shop required.

Best of luck.

Regards,

dl

Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem

RAC_1 — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:12:07 GMT

What does the local mail.log file say??

Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem

renarios — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:14:29 GMT

Hi all,

Excuse me for the late reply, I had a day off yesterday. I have found the solution. To get rid of the tilde commands, I used the following command:

mailx -r ${SENDER} -m -s ${subject} ${RECEIVER} << EOF
$(ux2dos ${DATFILE} | uuencode ${filealias})
Hey dude,

blah blah

Here is the attachment: ${alias}
EOF

Thanks for all the replies.
Cheers,

Renarios

Re: mailing with attachment outside domain problem

renarios — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:21:46 GMT

I lost the URL, but this is where I found the solution in:

Mail No attachment, body only -

mailx -m -s "Some Subject" somone@somewhere.com < file_for_email_body

Mail with attachement, no body -

ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt | mailx -m -s "MAIL FROM Someone" someone@somewhere.com

Mail with attachment and body -

ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt | mailx -m -s "MAIL FROM Someone" someone@somewhere.com < file_for_email_body

Mail with carbon and blind carbon -

mailx -m -s "Some Subject" somone@somewhere.com < file_for_email_body

(the file_for_email_body should look like this - )
~c someone_to_cc@somewhere.com
~b someone_to_bc@somewhere.com
The remainder of this file is the text body of the email.

Mail as another sender

echo "Hello" | mailx -m -s "Greeting" -r Santa.Claus@north_pole.com someone@somewhere.com

Mail with multiple attachments (The sentence "This is all you get." will appear as the body.)

mailx -m -s "Hello" someone@somewhere.com << END
`ux2dos /home/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt`
`ux2dos /home/some_other_file | uuencode some_other_file.txt`
This is all you get.
END

Cheers,

Renarios