mail on SunOS5.9

[Calator]

We have migrated from Digital Unix to Sun OS5.9.
We had shell scripts for emailing, invoking following command:

mail name@domain <file-name

This command no longer works under Sun, the message is saved to dead.letter

I checked "man mail" under Sun, the syntax appears a bit different, and there are NO examples to help me with this. I could see there is also rmail(recommended by Sun for sending email from applications) and mailx. Again the lack of examples in "man" makes it very difficult.

Can anyone help?

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

You an try using mailx:

mailx -t name@domain <file-name

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[Calator]

It did not work:

mailx -t name@domain <file-name
Ignoring recipients on command line with -t
No recipients specified

 

[SamBones]

Try this...

mailx name@domain < file-name

The "[tt]-t[/tt]" option says to ignore any addresses on the command line and scan the body of the mail for "To:", "Cc:", and "Bcc:" fields. If the file you're mailing doesn't have them, then you will get an error message that looks something like...

Ignoring recipients on command line with -t
No recipients specified

 

[Calator]

The result of
mailx name@domain < file-name
is:
/home/ell6lg/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/ell6lg/dead.letter