Hello,

I'm trying to pipe from a textfile to sendmail.

The command I'm using on teh sendmail server is:

[root@sendmail-server test]# sendmail to-email-address@relay_server-address < test2.txt

test2.txt is:

Date: 1/6/2011
To: to-email-address@relay_server-address
Subject: ** PROBLEM alert - vvmite02/Florida Handset 02 is CRITICAL **
From: from-email-address@sendmail-server
This is a test three
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I'm doing this because I was doing this from an aliases file just fine until about three weeks ago. The aliases file suddenly stopped working after the relay server received an inordinate amount of email from the From: address and for the To: address.

I suppose I need a sendmail guru?

Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.

Blaine

Hang on... Didnt see that part of the post. Let me get back to you here in a second.

Got it. So you want to use an input file, not manual input.

The text file would be:

Then do a

szboardstretcher,

Tried as you suggested. Thanks for the excellent tip. The email is still not getting through. Could it be that the from-email-name.somewhere.com is getting filtered somehow?

I must admit, I'm a bit confused by sendmail and its workings.

Just a pup, as it were...

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Blaine

You can use the -f option to specify the sender:

bathory,

Good suggestion. Tried it with the same null results. sendmail doesn't error, but I don't get the message either.

I'm leaning more and more towards some sort of filtering on the relay server. All the other emails from this domain are passed.

Thanks very much for your continued time and patience.

Blaine

Take a look at /var/log/maillog to see if the message was accepted by the relay.
Maybe it's finished in recipient's trash or spam folder.

bathory,

Good idea. I'll call the owners of the relay server and ask them if they're filtering me. I've checked my logs and the stat=Sent for all the messages to the relay server from my sendmail server.

This sure does get complicated. At least to me.

Thanks again for your patience and consideration.

Blaine

Sounds like the mail is leaving your server. With the -v option on the sendmail command, do you see that the sender and receiver are correct? If so, it is probably your relay filtering your mail, which may not give you an error, it may instead take the message, report that it has taken the message, then silently drop it.