how to send a mail

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi,

I have tried this code to send mail.Its not giving me error but I am not receiving mail also.Is there any config file that needs to be set.

#!/bin/ksh

echo  "The first mail"  >msg

cnt=`cat /dir1/msg | wc -l`

if [ $cnt -ne '0' ]
  then
      mail -s "Hello" abc.xyz@domain.com < msg

fi

I have also tried with the command

mailx -s "hello" abc.xyz@domain.come

ven this is not working.

Do any one have any idea how to get through this.

2

Try using a here-document, e,g,

mail -s "Hello" abc.xyz@domain.com << END
Your message here
END

If you want the message to come from the file, you can slurp it into a shell variable.

message=`cat message_file`
mail -s "Hello" abc.xyz@domain.com << END
$message
END

Finally you can pipe text to mail

echo "Your message here"|mail -s "Hello" abc.xyz@domain.com
cat message_file| mail -s "Hello" abc.xyz@domain.com

And by the way, note that you don't need the cat and pipe to count the lines in the file:

cnt=`wc -l /dir1/msg `

will do.