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

mailx question

David_385 — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:38:29 GMT

Hello to everybody:

I'm having a little and stupid problem but I think my head isn't in its place.
I have a shell tath every time it finishes it sends a mail, I make it in this form:

mailx -s "$vSubject" "$vRecipients" < $1/$fFicheroMail

How can I send a hide copy ( Bcc )???
I try with -b option but i didn't find a good way

Re: mailx question

Paul Sperry — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:46:56 GMT

~b name ... Add name to the blind carbon copy (Bcc) list.

Thats tildi not dash

~ not -

Re: mailx question

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:48:32 GMT

you can use ~b for bcc and ~c for cc.
Try this out ..
/usr/bin/mailx -s "subject" yourname@yourdomain < myfile

In "myfile", you can type:

~c 12345@abcde.com
~b 34567@abcde.com

~c and ~b lines will not appear in the mail contents.
man mailx for info..

-USA..

Re: mailx question

Pete Randall — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:48:46 GMT

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x95fb5f260cafd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Pete

Re: mailx question

Darren Prior — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:57:38 GMT

I'm afraid that mailx only allows you to use Bcc in interactive mode.

An alternative solution is to append your $1/$fFicheroMail file to a file containing the following lines:

To: your list of recipients
Bcc: your bcc list
Subject: your subject

then cat the whole lot to sendmail -t. Check the man page for sendmail; the -t option means to get the recipient data from the message.

regards,

Darren.

Re: mailx question

Pete Randall — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:27:53 GMT

David,

I think you'll have better luck using sendmail or elm. Check the link I gave you or search the forums for "sendmail and copy".

Pete

Re: mailx question

Chris Vail — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:01:10 GMT

Try mutt instead of mailx: http://www.mutt.org. It compiles easily and has a lot of command line options.

Chris