OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Tom Palmquist]

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?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
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Tom,

The following syntax works for me:

cat /tmp/vacations | mail -s "Vacation Requests" tla at aldridge.com

you'll notice that I added quotes to the subject and removed
the underscore. You normally would not need quotes using the
phrase with the underscore.

This works on the two flavors of linux and the 2 versions of
SCO 5.X that we have. Try it, you'll like it. It's just like 
Chicken soup, "It can't hurt"........etc.

My .02

Tom
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