Re: Mailx fails to send email

From: Tony McNicholas (tonymcnicholas_at_eircom.net)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: 20 May 2004 07:10:12 -0700

santhoshmenon@indiatimes.com (Santhosh Menon) wrote in message news:<daf211d.0405191134.3d29ce9@posting.google.com>...
> tonymcnicholas@eircom.net (Tony McNicholas) wrote in message news:<5ef83337.0405190648.450f3856@posting.google.com>...
> > I can send an email from solaris 8 using sendmail.
> >
> > ie
> >
> > /usr/lib/sendmail -t -oi < filename.txt
> >
> > filename.txt contains.
> > ................................
> > From: tony
> > To: oracle1@environ.ie
> > Bcc: tonymcnicholas@eircom.net
> > Subject: simple sendmail
> > ................................
> >
> > However the following fails to send an email
> >
> > mailx tonymcnicholas@eircom.net
> > SOME TEXT
> > EOT
> >
> > Anyone know why sendmail would work and mailx wouldn't ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tony.
> > ~
>
> We have something which is working on solaris
>
> mailx -s "Mail subject" <BC_LIST> <TO_LIST>
>
>
>
> also
> which mailx gives
> /usr/bin/mailx
>
> good luck

Figured out what the problem was. I had to reset the recipient to a
valid email address on the command line as opposed to the default
username@machine.domain on unix.

ie the following works

mailx -r oracle1@environ.ie -s subject tonymcnicholas@eircom.net

Thanks

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