Why is mailx not working?

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I’m trying to define a bash script to send me some log files as an attachment with mailx. I’ve found the following script on one of the forums, but I don’t receive any mails. Can you help?


#! /bin/sh

SUCCESS_LOG=/var/log/backupSuccess_log
ERROR_LOG=/var/log/backupFailure_log
SMTP=relay.skynet.be:25
FROM_MAIL=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
LOGIN=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
LOGIN_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
TO_MAIL=xxxxxxxxxxxxx

#Email access log
SUBJECT='Backup Success Log'
cat $SUCCESS_LOG | mailx $1 -s "$SUBJECT" -S ssl-verify=ignore -S smtp-use-starttls -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp="$SMTP" -S from="$FROM_MAIL" -S smtp-auth-user="$LOGIN" -S smtp-auth-password="$LOGIN_PASSWORD" $TO_MAIL

#Email error log
SUBJECT='Backup Error Log'
cat $ERROR_LOG | mailx $1 -s "$SUBJECT" -S ssl-verify=ignore -S smtp-use-starttls -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp="$SMTP" -S from="$FROM_MAIL" -S smtp-auth-user="$LOGIN" -S smtp-auth-password="$LOGIN_PASSWORD" $TO_MAIL

#Truncate logs
echo -n > $SUCCESS_LOG
echo -n > $ERROR_LOG
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Hash: SHA1

What do the logs generated show? Does your mail server support SSL?

Good luck.

eulaersivan wrote:
> I’m trying to define a bash script to send me some log files as an
> attachment with mailx. I’ve found the following script on one of the
> forums, but I don’t receive any mails. Can you help?
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> SUCCESS_LOG=/var/log/backupSuccess_log
> ERROR_LOG=/var/log/backupFailure_log
> SMTP=relay.skynet.be:25
> FROM_MAIL=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> LOGIN=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> LOGIN_PASSWORD=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> TO_MAIL=xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> #Email access log
> SUBJECT=‘Backup Success Log’
> cat $SUCCESS_LOG | mailx $1 -s “$SUBJECT” -S ssl-verify=ignore -S smtp-use-starttls -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp="$SMTP" -S from="$FROM_MAIL" -S smtp-auth-user="$LOGIN" -S smtp-auth-password="$LOGIN_PASSWORD" $TO_MAIL
>
> #Email error log
> SUBJECT=‘Backup Error Log’
> cat $ERROR_LOG | mailx $1 -s “$SUBJECT” -S ssl-verify=ignore -S smtp-use-starttls -S smtp-auth=login -S smtp="$SMTP" -S from="$FROM_MAIL" -S smtp-auth-user="$LOGIN" -S smtp-auth-password="$LOGIN_PASSWORD" $TO_MAIL
>
> #Truncate logs
> echo -n > $SUCCESS_LOG
> echo -n > $ERROR_LOG
>
> --------------------
>
>
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Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

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3

Is your ISP skynet.be? You can’t simply use any ISP’s relay, it has to be your ISP.

If you are sending to a local mailbox, you can use the local Postfix server as the SMTP server, and the authentication stuff is unnecessary.

4

Get (or compile) mailx-12.4 or newer. Older versions had issues with charsets and attachments.

And what is the $1 argument you are passing to mailx? At that position only a combination of the options -BDdEFintv~ is allowed.