mail -s command gives Bad Address

sureshunix · 11-25-2008, 12:56 AM

Hi All,

When i tried to execute the command mail -s "test" help@as.com in linux, i got "bad address" output.

How to resolve this ?

Note:It is working in root login.

Thanks & Regards,
Suresh

aus9 · 11-25-2008, 04:23 AM

my /usr/bin/mail links to a mailer executable and has permissions to allow the local user to execute it

as YMMV try

Code:

find / -name mail
(pretend response is /usr/bin/mail)
ls -al /usr/bin/mail
/usr/bin/mail -> /etc/alternatives/mail
ls -al /etc/alternatives/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2008-10-10 16:32 /etc/alternatives/mail -> /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
ls -al /usr/bin/bsd-mailx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81016 2008-11-09 17:03 /usr/bin/bsd-mailx

you probably do not have so many sym links as mine but the main thing is the third set of r-x for the others

rdmarsh · 08-07-2013, 01:52 AM

For anyone that wanders past this way, I had this exact problem.

Turned out to be permissions on $TMPDIR, so check /tmp if it's not set. For me, TMPDIR was set to /restore/tmpdir