Manuel Mussini wrote:
> You're right!
> The mail server was not correctly configured by my system administrator! Now
> it works fine!
> 
> Reading "man mail" and "man sendmail" I've not found any hint about
> attaching files to the mails!
> BTW I suppose it is possible! Isn't it?

I think mutt does it fairly easily.


> Is there a complete documentation for these two great applications?
> I think there could be other interesting tricks to learn about them! :-)
> 
> Bye...
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:owner-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Miles O'Neal
>> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 17:16
>> To: Scientific Linux Users
>> Subject: RE: Mail from a script
>>
>> Manuel Mussini said...
>> |Could you help me a little more to understand the syntax?
>> |It's not clear to me what "cat <<Z" and "Z" do!
>>
>> That's covered in the man pages for the shells, but
>> basically it delimits a "here document".  It tells
>> the shell to temporarily redirect STDIN to the script
>> between the occurances of Z.  It says, "use this data
>> as if you were reading from a file".
>>
>> |In addition to that ... what do I need to configure to let this work? I'm
>> |not able to run it on all my desktops so probably something is set
>> |different! I get no error but I do not receive the mail!
>>
>> Are they all running the same OS?
>> Are they all running the same mail server software (postfix, sendmail,
>> whatever)?
>> Have you checked that the mail server is actually running on each system?
>> Are they config'd the same WRT the mail server?
>> Does other mail from those systems get through?
>> Is security set hte same on all desktops (iptables, SELinux, etc)?
>>
>> -Miles
> 


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Cheers
John

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