Send file with attachment from a solaris unix to email. Send the execution results from cron to the registered user by e mail. After some patch installation my mailx is not working in the server. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features.
Also take a read of the ultimate solaris sendmail troubleshooting guide which helps with differences between solaris versions 8, 9, 10. How to attach a file to an email using command line in rhel 5. If the intended recipient is on the same machine as the sender, the login. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Mar 03, 2014 1 ask you mail server administrator to allow mail relay for solaris server. Eventually is there any other tool in solaris which can be used for such as procedure. I was told redhat 6 mailx had that functionality without using uuencode. Rhel 5 had bsd mailx, and rhel 6 has heirloom mailx.
I am using mailx command in my script to attach a file and send an email. When you attach a device to a root pool to create a mirrored root pool, zpool. Sometimes when the same command or script is used on rhel 5, the email is displayed as expected in the email client mua. To be recognized as html i need to put in email header this information.
Find answers to how to send mail using command prompt in solaris 10. I can do one or the other, but i seem to be unable to do both at the same time. Fujitsu m10 is sold as sparc m10 systems by fujitsu in japan. If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Solaris common messages and troubleshooting guide oracle docs. If everyone who reads nixcraft, who likes it, helps fund it, my future would be more secure. Solaris also provides a mechanism for building a file using m4 but this technique is not covered here.
May 18, 2011 in solaris 9 and above, sendmail uses a 2 queue paradigm structure varspoolmqueue and varspoolclientmqueue. Become a supporter make a contribution via paypalbitcoin. Solaris mailx and attachments ars technica openforum. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Hi all, i have one difficulty here with my shell script. Send the output of an html file within the email body using mailx. Nov 08, 2011 this entry was posted in database, how to, linux, misc, unix and tagged attaching file on emails in unix, how to send emails with attachment in unix, mailx, mailx r, mailx s, mailx with attachment, sending email with attachment, sending emails on unix, sending emails with attachment on unix, sending emails with body and attachment, sendmail. Seding attachment through mailx on sun solaris codeproject. How to send attachments to mail messages using the oracle solaris mailx 1 command doc id 1201634. An intended recipients login name and machine name serve as a unique address for the mailx program.
How to send attachments to mail messages using the oracle. Reverse dependencies 0 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on mailx. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Solaris 10 sendmail stopstart march 14, 2010 unix clear, mail queue, mailq, mqueue, sendmail disbale, sendmail stop, solaris 10 jamal ahmed solaris 10. How to send mails with attachments using the solaris mailx command. If f or file is given, mail operates on the mailbox named by the first argument, or the users mbox, if no argument given. This will address attaching one or more files to a mailx mail message. In the newer version of mailx the headers that are used in outgoing email. Starting in the solaris 10 106 release, smtp can use transport layer security tls in version 8. Hi, im working on solaris 9 sparc and i like to send an html body message to our users when something happen. The number one in health check software for linux and unix. The mailx program is not window based, and can therefore be run on any terminal. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. We used the following code to send an attachment using mailx.
Solaris mailx send message and attach a file solutions. Using mailx gives me the content of the file, but i need it as an attachment. The sample file is used as a basis for the configuration here and, as supplied with solaris, is almost but not quite suitable for use on an intermittently connected dialup system. But i want to send an email using mailx command instead of attaching the html file in an email, i want to show the results of html file within an email body. How to send mails with attachments using the solaris mailx command by admin the post discusses the use of uuencode to send mails with attachments using mailx command. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. The problem is that i cant find how to give mime type information with mailx. Unfortunately im on solaris in a big corporate environment, so this is what i have to use. After you change the authentication type for the incoming mail server, email. Apr 17, 2012 so you can see why i need to ask for your help. View the frequently asked questions from the ibm bigfix patch for solaris users guide in ibm bigfix. This service to smtp servers and clients provides private, authenticated communications over the internet, as well as protection from eavesdroppers and attackers. Reverse dependencies 0 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on sendmail. I want to send four text files and one csv file as attachment using mail or mailx and uuencode utility on solaris server.
To see which bugs and issues are fixed and no longer apply to the solaris 10 10 08. In solaris 9 and above, there are 2 sendmail daemons for the 2 queues. Tektipss functionality depends on members receiving email. Mar 23, 2020 the heirloom mailx package formerly known as the nail package contains mailx, a commandline mail user agent derived from berkeley mail. Find answers to mailx not working in solaris 10, no mail log file from the expert community at experts exchange. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. My client needs this log file every two hour in his mail. Sunos provides a program called mailx for sending and receiving electronic mail email. Basic syntax to send emails from linux machine using mailx command is show below. This is to make sendmail more secure by not giving out setuid for root in the binary, unlike solaris 8 and below which has one queue varspoolmqueue.
Solved using mailx to send an attachment in redhat 6. The problem is that we have a 5mb limit on the size of the attachments. How to configure mailx in solaris 10 i want to configure smtp server so i can send mail using mailx utility. This section describes how to perform basic tasks in mailx. It is intended to provide the functionality of the posix mailx command with additional support for mime messages, imap including caching, pop3, smtp, smime, message threadingsorting, scoring, and filtering. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. How to send mail using command prompt in solaris 10. The nixcraft takes a lot of my time and hard work to produce. Available for aix and red hat enterprise linux systems. When sending an email from a command line or a script using mailx, the text intended to be a body is received as an attachment.
Dec 27, 20 i have read how to send a mailx message and how to send an attached file in solaris 10. How to attach a file to an email using command line in rhel 6. The five error messages in the following example are basically the same. Hi, i have requirement from our client to configure mailx on the red hat linux server. What is the maximum size for attachment using unix mailx. Usually i send manual mail through mailx command, as sendmail is configured with relay server, but i am not sure, how to attach file in a mail and set it in cronjob. That is to say, this is not a bug in uuencode but simply a change in the mailx package. We are moving an application from solaris to linux redhat 6. Can anybody provide me the steps to configure mailx to send the mailx configuration steps needed, please.