MAIL to internet address from DCL script

[Paul Murray_4]

Hello Gurus,

I'm having a little trouble using MAIL within a DCL script.

Basically, I'm running AUTOGEN FEEDBACK and want to email the report to the sysadmins in the team. However, the email addresses are standard internet addresses rather than host specific VMS mail.

When I enter the address "admins@blah.com" from an interactive MAIL session, everything works fine. However, from within my script - nothing !!

The line in my script to send the mail is :-

$ MAIL SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT ADMINS@BLAH.COM /SUBJECT="AUTOGEN FEEDBACK"

I'm presuming that the problem revolves around the "@" sign, but I don't know how to get around it.

Any ideas ??

Regs,
Paul.


(PS - Thanks in advance !!).

[Jeroen Hartgers_3]

syntax something like this

mail smtp:"x@a.com"

[Paul Murray_4]

Hi,

Got a little further than before - actually got an error message now :-

$ MAIL SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT SMTP:"ADMINS@BLAH.COM" /SUBJECT="AUTOGEN FEEDBACK"
%TCPIP-E-SMTP_BADADDR, recipient address is illegal; unparsed string: :@
%TCPIP-E-SMTP_ABORT, SMTP session aborted



Paul.

[Jan van den Ende]

Paul,

yes, it is about the @ sign, and the way around this is the VMS way around any special syntax or characters:
enclose the entire recipient specification in double quotation marks In a script you put THAT in quotation marks, and you put double those to specify them IN the string.
That results in """username@internet.address"""

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Heinz W Genhart]

Hi

the correct syntax is:

$ MAIL SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT "SMTP%ADMINS@BLAH.COM" /SUBJECT="AUTOGEN FEEDBACK"

Regards

Heinz

[Robert Gezelter]

Paul,

I concur, from long experience, with Jan and Heinz.

The correct syntax (presuming that you are using a base SMTP transport, not a message router such as MX) is:

$ mail filename "SMTP%""username@domain"""

Please note the multiple quotes. Quotes WITHIN a quoted string must be doubled.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

[Steven Schweda]

Regarding "the correct syntax":

And how many years has it been since the
"SMTP%" has actually been _required_ by MAIL
on an Internet address?

My advice: Stop reading replies after Feb 13,
2006 14:36:22 GMT, when "the correct answer"
was posted.

Of course, it's still legal to specify
"SMTP%" (or "WINS%", or whatever your mailer
goes by), but you can easily see for yourself
if it's needed or not.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

I simply do :
$ mail/sub="x" file "us@wim.com"

from within the script, in batch or interactive, and without any problem.

Wim

[Paul Murray_4]

Guys,

Thanks for all the input - I just happened to try my script on another host, just by wrapping the email address in double-quotes, and the mail came through straight away.

Given that interactive MAIL works on the original server, by my script doesn't, is there a logical or something that might be missing on the other host ?

(Sorry to change the problem !!)

Regs,
Paul

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

May be MAIL$INTERNET_MODE.

Check http://h71000.www7.hp.com/DOC/73final/6017/6017pro_016.html

Wim