Using a email address with a space (MAILX)

[kumarp]

I am trying to send email thru Lotus Notes. The email address is a Team.

How to I attempt something like

mailx -s &quot;Test Subject&quot; Team One@mycompany.com < /home/kumarp/NSTSFIN/monthend_dec_$DATE_STAMP.log

Notice the space between &quot;Team One&quot; email address.

 

[vgersh99]

mailx -s &quot;Test Subject&quot; 'Team One@mycompany.com'

vlad
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[kumarp]

Hello vgersh99,

I tried your mailx -s &quot;Test Subject&quot; 'Team One@mycompany.com'.

It does not work. After executing the command on Unix no email is sent ?

 

[vgersh99]

Ddd you give it a file to send?

vlad
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[kumarp]

Yes I did,

Here is what I did

mailx -s &quot;TEST&quot; 'Team One@mycompany.com' < filename

 

[vgersh99]

hmmmmmmm.... strange.
And if you specify an individual email address (not an alias) it works ok?

If that's the case, I don't know......

vlad
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[kumarp]

Thanks for your help. It works perfectly alright with individual addresses which do not have any space:

mailx -s &quot;TEST&quot; user1@mycompany < filename

But would not work for a group email id which has a space in between two words.

 

[aixmurderer]

Have you tried to escape the space with a backslash first? Donno if it wil work, but may be worth the try:

mailx -s &quot;Test Subject&quot; 'Team\ One@mycompany.com'< filename


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[kumarp]

Hello Guys,

Thanks. I got the answer finally. I had to do like this:

mailx -s &quot;TEST&quot; Team_One@mycompany.com < filename

The reason for this is:

The people who run LOTUS NOTES SERVER in our company have put a little hack in place. But this is not a standard.

This is what they had to say:

If you enter a &quot;To:&quot; address of &quot;Perl&quot; and hit enter. You will see &quot;Perl-Administrators&quot; and &quot;Perl Administrators&quot;. The group &quot;Perl-Administrators&quot; has one &quot;person&quot; in its group...&quot;Perl Administrators&quot;. The &quot;Perl Administrators&quot; group is where we put people. Then from UNIX or any other external internet system can send email to &quot;Perl-Administrators@testtest.com&quot; and it gets sent to &quot;Perl Administrators&quot; and then on to us.