OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:38:59PM -0500, Tom Aldridge wrote:
> I did as Mark suggested and am now calling sendmail as follows:
> 
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -s "Vacation_Requests" tla at aldridgeinc.com
> </tmp/vacations
> 
> I also changed the group numbers according to the web link suggested.
> 
> However, now:
> 
> 1`) Printed to screen just after the command runs, comes:
> 
> "/home/filepro/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/filepro/dead.letter"
> 
> 2) The email is sent but the subject doesn't appear to the recipient.
> 
> Any other ideas?

If you're going to feed messages to sendmail, you need to put a
complete set of headers *in the text file you hand it*; sendmail will
not, in general, synthesize any headers at all.

Cheers,
-- jra
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