I have created a service that is supposed to send an automated email in HTML format by using UNIX mail command. It was working correctly until yesterday when suddenly stopped sending mails.
This is the command Im running programmatically
cat ./email.txt | mail -v -s "$(echo -e "Report for Last Week
Content-Type: text/html
Reply-to: abraham#corp.com
From: abraham#corp.com")" abraham#corp.com manolo#corp.com
The output looks like:
abraham#corp.com... queued
manolo#corp.com... queued
I am not getting any email, neither my partner...
I am not even able to run
echo "test"|mail -s "This is a test" abraham#corp.com
Im running on RedHat Linux.
Just in case someone needs help. The issue was related to the sendmail service of the OS.
I had to go service sendmail restart
It was as simple as that, however, I did compare the configuration files against a clean machine to make sure they were similar.
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I use logrotate that sends me logs on a regular basis. My server is a VPS running Postfix as an outgoing-only SMTP server.
I would like all the mailed logs (which Logrotate sends) to be encrypted with PGP or S/MIME. How can I do that?
I searched for logrotate mail encryption, but couldn't find any. Therefore, I'm thinking that I can pass "nomail" command in logrotate config, but then add in the "postscript" a script to first encrypt the mail and then send.
So, is there a better way to encypt logrotate mail with PGP? Or that's what I need to do? I would appreciate any advise or an example of such a script.
Also, I'm not considering to use TLS as there are possible ways to bypass it in the SMTP server. And I would rather rely on encryption of individual messages.
Thanks!
Edit:
Here is my script I'm using for custom email sending(Without GPG for now):
#!/bin/bash
read MSG
echo $MSG | mail -s $1 $2
But when I force rotate with logrotate --mail=loggpg.sh --force /etc/logrotate.d/ufw I keep getting error about uncompression, do I need to manually uncompress it? Or there is smth wrong with the script?
Error I get:
error: mail command failed for /var/log/ufw.log.5.gz
error: uncompress command failed mailing /var/log/ufw.log.5.gz`
You can execute logrotate with --mail command line option. It will allow you to use your own shell/perl/python script to send email instead of default /bin/mail -s.
man logrotate
OPTIONS
...
-m, --mail
Tells logrotate which command to use when mailing logs. This command should accept two arguments: 1) the subject of the message, and
2) the recipient. The command must then read a message on standard input and mail it to the recipient. The default mail command is
/bin/mail -s.
I am vikas. i am looking a command that can send mail from zimbra mail-store server to external world. but as i checked in zimbra not getting Any program that have role of sending mails. that is why i am relay email through Zimbra MTA server. now i am going to use below command but still getting variable error.
awk 'BEGIN{print "Subject:test mail!\nFrom:Mailadmin <admin#knowledgelinux.com>"}{printf("%s\015\n", $0)}' $message file-name=/test.txt | sendmail -t "mail#knowledgelinux.com"
awk: command not found
The instructions here worked for me:
vim /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
Relevant lines to be replaced:
Output = mail
MailTo = root_all#your.domain
MailFrom = Logwatch#your.domain
mailer = "/opt/zimbra/common/sbin/sendmail -t"
Zimbra uses a modified version of sendmail.
The Zimbra MTA uses a modified postfix daemon. You should be able to just use the command mail:
cat *messagefilename* |mail -r *fromaddress* -s *Subject* *recipient-list*
As long as the Zimbra MTA is running on the machine in question this should work.
I am trying to run MOSS on my Mac OS X and I don't know what mistake I am making. I am not sure whether I am running the command properly or not. I downloaded this file as 'moss', gave this execution permissions and tried to run following:
./moss -l python -c "Assignment 1" -d assignment1/
I got the response as
Checking files . . .
OK
Which is wrong. The assignment1 directory has 4 python scripts. Two files are exactly similar, in one I have rearranged the code and in another I have changed the variable names.
I have sent the email for registration and I have not received any reply. So I am running the code with default user ID.
I also tried running it with sending each of those python files instead of working on a directory, still I get same response.
./moss -l python -c "Assignment 1" 1.py 2.py 3.py 4.py
Steps to get going with MOSS on your Mac:
Send an email at moss#moss.stanford.edu with the mail body containing the email you want to register.
Eg:
registeruser
mail "username#domain" <-- your email
You will then get a reply containing the script that you will need to save as “moss.pl”. Just make sure that your Mac has the “perl” folder within the “/usr/bin/“ folder. Else, change the path of the perl folder on the very first line of the script to be compatible to your machine.
Now set the execute permission using the command “chmod ug+x moss.pl”. This should allow you to send your queries to the Stanford server. If you were to not execute this command then you may be denied the permission to submit any queries.
Now submit the query to the server using the command similar to the following (note the command is not restricted to a single flag (i.e. -l)….refer the comments in the script for USAGE instructions):
“./moss.pl -l python file_1.py file_2.py”
The result on submitting a query such as above would be:
Checking files . . .
OK
Uploading file_1.py ...done.
Uploading file_2.py ...done.
Query submitted. Waiting for the server's response.
http://moss.stanford.edu/results/282371307.
Just review if you have followed all the steps above. I, then, don't see you having any issues getting the results. Maybe you were facing issues bcoz you were not registered initially.
Seems one should be registered to use it, instructions weren't clear on the site. I received the email finally with userid and ran the script, this time it worked.
I think you should resend the email in the format:
registeruser
mail youremail
In the reply email you will get your ID, replace it in the script and run the moss file again. You should get the link for the result.
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I am trying to use Cygwin to send an e-mail from the command line. This is what I am putting in:
email -f myaddress#blah.com -s "This is a test" -b toaddress#blah.com
I get this error message:
/bin/sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
I created a folder in /usr/lib called "sendmail", and now I get this:
/bin/sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: is a directory
Can someone please give me a step-by-step on how to send an email from Cygwin? Like how to set it up and everything? I have looked everywhere and I am about ready to tear my hair out.
EDIT: Thanks for your responses guys. This is how I finally got it to work.
bash.exe -c "echo -e 'To: thepeopleimsendingitto#blah.com\nSubject: mySQL Upload\nSQL files from machines uploaded to log table successfully.' | sendmail -f me#blah.com otherpeople#blah.com"
Even though Cygwin was in my Windows path, it couldn't recognize it, so I had to run bash.exe directly and say "do this command as a Linux command". The echo is what is constructing the email itself. The \n characters separate it into "To", "Subject" and Body.
Apparently, email is a program that lets you submit an email message (a Mail Submission Agent) that relies on another program to actually send the message (a Mail Transfer Agent).
I enabled this on my Cygwin installation last week.
I am not using email but mutt, one of the alternatives Cygwin offers (see its package list).
I use mutt not only to submit the mail to be sent, but also to read it; it's a Mail User Agent (see some screenshots).
Like email, mutt relies on a Mail Transfer Agent to send mail, so I had to install one.
On Linux, popular choices are sendmail and postfix; but they do far more than you need and Cygwin doesn't offer them as packages. It does offer exim and ssmtp.
I installed the ssmtp package and ran the ssmtp-config utility. You have to make some decisions here. You must know which SMTP server you can use and whether you need any special configuration to communicate with it.
By the way, ssmtp does install an executable called sendmail, which is not the original sendmail, but behaves like it for the purposes you need it for.
Okay So i wasn't clear enough on my first attempt... I guess that is my fault, I will try to make this more clear.
In the mail-config it will ask for the sendmail binary. It should sound something like this :
Please enter the sendmail command line [/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i]:
This is basically asking where is the sendmail binary installed and what parameters should i pass it to send a mail. Your sendmail binary is either not installed, or not installed in the location you are specifying.
To see if you have sendmail installed try
%sendmail;
If that works, to find the path of that binary try
%which sendmail;
If that does not work, either sendmail is not installed, or the location of sendmail needs to be appended to the env path variable. There no correct answer on how you want to set things up, but the minimum requirments to make this work is to have sendmail on the current machine, have it configured and pass the correct absolute path to the mail program in the mail-config.
I have a very small office environment, and my team sends created pdfs to an sFTP server daily.
Occasionally, I will get a call that someone can't log in to upload the files.
My normal course of action is to connect to the sFTP server myself, run a commmand like ls to determine it is responding.
I would like to be able to automate this with notification if there is a failure:
Login to the sFTP server (with credentials).
Run an LS command
Email if connection times out or login fails.
I have limited experience with writing Batch files, but I can't seem to figure a way to get only a 'failed' / no response to send an email.
Could anyone help with ideas? I'd like to run this as a VB or Batch in Scheduled Tasks, as I have a Server 2000 machine this could run on. I know batch has issue sending emails, but i have another batch file that uses Blat.exe to send an email with passed variables, so i could use that if i could get batch to send failed responses...
You should be able to do this with a batch file.
Create a file called logon.ftp. This file contains the FTP logon script. Mine contains:
open Ftp_server
ftpuser
ftppassword
ls -l
quit
The testftp.bat file:
ftp.exe < logon.ftp | grep "Not connected" > nul && call :alert_someone
#echo Logon successful
goto exit
:alert_someone
#echo %date% %time% > alert.txt
#echo ftp_server appears to not be taking logins. >> alert.txt
blat alert.txt -to you -from ftp_watcher -subject "alert %date% %time% ftp_server not taking logins"
:exit
You'll need to get blat, and grep so you can do the string checking. My winxp ftp doesnt support errorlevels, so I'm using the errorlevel returned from grepping the 'Not connected' string to figure out if this worked or not.
You can get wget or curl to do this as well, and they do support errorlevels.
Batch files can be a bit too basic for this kind of thing.
If you were able and willing to experiment with the Python programming language ( http://www.python.org ) and additionally install the Paramiko module ( http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ ) then it would be possible to write a script along the lines of...
import paramiko
try:
t = paramiko.Transport(('TheHostname', 22))
t.connect(username='MyUsername', password='MyPassword')
sftp = paramiko.SFTPClient.from_transport(t)
dirlist = sftp.listdir('.')
except:
print "It's Broken"
#Send e-mails and such here
that you could then schedule to run on a regular basis.