Re: [Exim] Command line mails

My god I was an "emerge mailx" away from success all this time..

Works a treat

Many Many thanks

Simon


Kevin Reed wrote:

>Use mailx instead of mail
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>Simon Chappell said:
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>>Hi All,
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>>I have a command line reporting program(Well scripts really)
>>every five minutes they send me an email if some parameters are hit.
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>>part of the script that send the email is this
>>if ((@lines) and $Levels{$level} >= $Levels{$MailThreshold}) {
>> open (MAIL, "| mail -s '[$level] $hostname: $subject' '$Email'");
>> foreach (@lines) {
>> print MAIL $_;
>> }
>> close(MAIL);
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>>the line in question I beleive is this one
>>open (MAIL, "| mail -s '[$level] $hostname: $subject' '$Email'");
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>>I get this
>>exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -s
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>>if I replace with this line
>>open (MAIL, "| mail -F 'Warning' $Email");
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>>I sends the mail with the body but I have no subject line. Is there a
>>command that I can insert the subject line into the mail.
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>>Been googlin with this for months so I am out of ideas. I even bought
>>the book( which was great for setting up spamassasin and clam now the
>>mail server seems bulletproof) but even that has not helped with this
>>problem.
>>
>>Any help greatly received
>>
>>Simon
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