syntax of mailx

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I have written a code :

mailx -s "FOR TESTING" "abcd@yahooo.com"

but it is not running and not giving any error msg and also not sending
any mail. It takes infinite time.

Please help me.

2

Check whether your inputs are correct.

If not you can use the mailx command like

mailx -s "FOR TESTING" "abcd@yahoo.com" <<EOF
This is going to be body of the mail 

EOF

or

echo "This is going to be body of the mail" |mailx -s "FOR TESTING" "abcd@yahoo.com"
3

its work.

Thanks.

4

also you can do really clever stuff like so, send an attachment and run some commands

mailx -s hello bill@blah.com <<EOF
`uuencode file file`

find the file attached on
`date`
cksum should be 
`cksum file`

EOF

note the uuencode should really be the first line and have no spaces
before it

5

Try using following command -

mailx -ms "FOR TESTING" "abcd@yahooo.com"