OT?: Emailing from within filepro

[Fairlight]

At Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:41:08PM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Bill Vermillion was observed uttering:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:19:56PM -0500, Tom Aldridge thus spoke:
> > Tom Palmquist wrote:
> > > 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.
[snip]
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Tom-
> 
> > I tried the double quotes earlier to noavial. The command, run from within
> > filePro, is giving me:
> 
> > cat /tmp/vacations | mail -s "Vacation Requests" tla at aldridge.com
> > 
> > 1) No subject in the email received my the recipient
> > 2) /home/filepro/dead.letter... Saved message in>> /home/filepro/dead.letter
> > echoed to scren.
> 
> That is >>NOT<< what you posted in another message as I recall it.
> 
> You said 'dead.letter' error message was given when you
> used the     sendmail -s    argument,  and you said that when you used
> mail -s   you got proper email but got the WARNING about RunAsGID
> for MSG ignored.
> 
> I just checked the other mail that had that.
> 
> Can you verify just what errors you get with what commands.
> I suspect the earlier one was correct and it is this one that is
> wrong.

If he's now using mail and -s with the subject, I think I -may- know the
cause of the problem on SCO.  His -very first- post showed 
`mail -s Vacation_Requests`  ...Note the underscore and lack of quotes.
That would work, and he only had sgid issues.

I've run into instances on SCO where quoting the subject did not make it
one argument, and it broke on spaces, so it could be dying on an unknown
address of "Requests" since he's now using a space.

I'm not saying it -is-, I'm saying I've seen it, although it's been years
since I tried reproducing it.  There was something very specific about the
way it was triggered.

mark->
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