mailx to to Dl

[Sachin_29]

mailx to to Dl
Is there any way that I can mailx to a distribution list without having a $HOME/.mailrc file?
We have a distribution list in Outlook for our group say group@something.com.
I am trting to do echo "Something"|mailx -s "Subject" group@something.com
it doesnt work
Any ideas?
Thanks

[Dave La Mar]

We do just that and more in our environment without issue.
What is the error?
What do your mail admins say about mail rejections (i.e. reverse lookup).

Regards,

dl

[Sachin_29]

No error it just doesnt send an email

[Dave La Mar]

Does it get out of your mail queue?
Are there errors in any of your log files?
Is there no return mail message to the sender?
Again, insure your failure is not due to reverse lookup which is so common today with all the spam people receive.

Regards,

dl

[Michael Tully]

What is in your mail queue?

# mailq

What is being logged to /var/adm/syslog/mail.log ?

[Sachin_29]

mailq is empty

[Sachin_29]

I am on AIX if that helps .
also if i type it through Command line it works it doesnt work thru the script?
Any reason???????

[Dave La Mar]

Guess we need to see that portion of your script as well as what you are entering on the command line.

Regards,

dl

[Sachin_29]

In the Script:
#/usr/bin/ksh
ls -la>a.txt
echo "Something"| mailx -s "Subject" group@something.com


On the command line it is
echo "Something"| mailx -s "Subject" group@something.com

[Dave La Mar]

Just a thought here ...
#/usr/bin/ksh -x
ls -la>a.txt
echo "Something"| mailx -s "Subject" group@something.com

Nohup the script as is and look for a message in the nohup.out.
If this does not reveal anything, use the -x as above and nohup to a clean nohup.out.
One of the two methods has to reveal something.

Regards,

dl

[Sachin_29]

I amrunning the script thru a scheduler!!

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Try fully qualifying the paths to mailx and echo.

/usr/bin/echo "Something" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "Something" someone@something.com

[Dave La Mar]

What Patrick mentions sets of the alarm coupled with your comment on running the script via a scheduler.
We have seen this same type of problem with an environment of the user starting a script via a scheduler.

1. Path to command not set.
2. Permissions of the user in the scheduler.

I put my money on Patrick's answer.
Thanks for adding the piece "scheduler" to you information.

Regards,

dl

[lawrenzo]

we have configured sendmial to use an exchange server in our organisation then use the /etc/mail/aliases file to add the web address.

see this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=610438