sending mail

[itherd]

Hi,

I am not much familiar with unix. I have a sco box version is 5.0.6. We are using it as oracle server. Until now we have not used it for mailing internally nor externally. Now if I want to send reports directly from database to external email addresses like to yahoo how can I do this. No additional components or 3rd party softwares (for mail)are installed. Can somebody guide me on this pls.

 

[PHV]

http://osr5doc.ca.sco.com:457/mailhome.html

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[itherd]

Thank You PHV,
I will go thru this. Since its a huge document it may take sometime for me to get to the point.

 

[cdlvj]

There is a mail client Mutt which can do the job. You will probably have to download and install it.

The mail unix command will work also, see man mail. But I do not think attachments are supported.
Just simply build a string and use the system() function.

syscode is a string object.


syscode.erase();
syscode.append("echo '"
syscode.append(Text);
syscode.append("' | mutt "

if (Attachment.length() > 0)
{
syscode.append("-a '"
syscode.append(Attachment);
syscode.append("' "
}

syscode.append("-s '"
syscode.append(Subject);
syscode.append("' "
syscode.append(EmailList);
sysc = (char *) syscode;
return (system(sysc));

 

[ls62]

There was also a free utility called "jail" that I found for using unix mail command and sending attachments. Works great, I don't recall where I got it from or who wrote it, but I think it was posted in another thread on this forum before.

Lee

 

[apeasecpc]

I'm not sure I understand the problem. Do you need to use SCO as the mail server for these report mailings, or do you already have a separate mail server?

It is possible to send e-mails from SCO through an external mail server using sendmail and it's subsidiary programs.