elm mailing address

[Thi Vu]

Hello everyone,

I wrote a script that will notify, using elm, a group whenever the process error out. However, the email address for that group has a space in between (i.e news group@host.ca). How can I do this? I had try this:
mailgrp=`"news group@host.ca"`
elm -s "error message" ${mailgrp}

but elm expand the email address to: news@host.ca and group@host.ca and there's no such email address as that.

Any help is greatly appreciate. Thanks

Thi

[Steven E. Protter]

Not to knock your technique but this code works well for me.

if **** error condition ****
# create message file
cat message | mailx -s "Error Report" steve@somedomain.net

fi

SEP

[James A. Donovan · Accepted solution]

Did you try enclosing the ${mailgrp} inside quotes?

elm -s "error message" "${mailgrp}"

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Your problem has nothing to do with elm and everything to do with the shell. ${mailgrp} when passed to elm (or any other command) expands to two arguments but "${mailgrp}" expands to only one.

[Chushia]

Hi there,

I got the same problem but now I found a solution.

In your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
uncomment the line:
0 OldStyleHeaders=True

And then use "" around the address that has a space, sendmail should go.