Oops, I see now that the mailx on RHEL5 and RHEL6 and very different beasts. RHEL5: mailx-8.1.1-44.2.2 RHEL6: mailx-12.4-7.el6.x86_64 http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html The legacy mailx on RHEL5 doesn't support all those options. If it's acceptable in your environment, you can get the newer "Heirloom" mailx from the EPEL repository. Note that it's the "nail" package on EPEL. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL HTH, Don On 7/17/14 7:52 AM, "Sunhux G" <sunhux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Have to remove both -a & -S in order not to get the syntax >error but the emails never arrive: >(I'm able to 'telnet 172.20.1.92 25' from the server that mailx is issued >from) > ># mailx -s "test5" -u root "smtp=172.20.1.92" recipient@xxxxxxx < >/tmp/cis/group.tmp > Or ># mailx -s "test5" -u root "smtp=172.20.1.92:25" recipient@xxxxxxx < >/tmp/cis/group.tmp > > >If I issue just the command below from the sendmail relay >server itself (without the -S & without "smtp=IP_of_SMTP"), >the emails arrive: > > mailx -s "from SMTP2 server" external_recipient@xxxxxxx < /tmp/tst.dat > >I browsed thru the man pages for mailx : can't >locate a -S or "smtp=a.b.c.d" option. Did I miss >something? > > > >On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Sunhux G <sunhux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> What Harris gave with mailx is probably what I'm looking for, >> just that I can't get the syntax right with -a (or even if I leave >> out the -a option) : >> >> # mailx -s "test" -a /tmp/tst.tar.gz -S "smtp=172.20.1.92" >> recipient@xxxxxxx < /tmp/cis/group.tmp >> Or (without the -u ) >> # mailx -s "test" -a /tmp/tst.tar.gz -u whitelistid@xxxxxxx -S >> "smtp=172.20.1.92" recipient@xxxxxxx < /tmp/cis/group.tmp >> mailx: invalid option -- a >> Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... >> [-- sendmail-options ...] >> mail [-iInNv] -f [name] >> mail [-iInNv] [-u user] >> What did I miss? I've tried with uuencode (referring to some >> examples on the Net) too but no joy >> >> >> SH >> >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
