Hi,

Was trying out the mail -s "subject" [addr] < "filename" command. This only seems to work for some of the email addresses.

I tried sending the mail to around 5 email addresses and found that even though I sent the mail, the mails are not delivered to few of the addresses. If I were to make a grouped mails address for these people it seems to go, that is since the mail is first sent to the group and then distributed by the corresp. server.

In the above case the mail -s command was used individually for these email addresses.

Not sure why the few addresses where not delivered the mail. All of the email addresses belong to the same domain.

So is there any way to check why was the mail not delivered or is there any concept of white/black listing with the mail client. If so how to check that. I am working on Redhat AS-4 server. Can anybody guide me on this.

Thanks in advance.

First, welcome to LQ.

Regarding your question, you can check your maillog as to the reason why some of the mail wasn't delivered. Also, make sure you are using the appropriate syntax for the mail command, e.g.

Yeah the syntax is pretty much right. Thanks for the welcome line. But the problem is that i was able to send mails to these addresses before. But now the same set of addresses don't receive any mails. So just wanted to knw whether is there any logs that are maintained for mail delivery failure? or might be anything else that can help me debug the problem.

Mail messages usually logged in something like /var/log/maillog. If there's a problem with some recipients, it'll be logged there.