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Having a mailx oddity with BCC.
Got a cron job. Here's an edited example of what goes on. Duh_Snoops="aname@somewhere.com,bname@gmail.com"
Duh_Listing is the names of attachments, Duh_Subject and Duh_Stoopid.msg are text strings. Issue a mail command:
mailx $Duh_Listing -r me@mydomain.com -s "`echo $Duh_Subject`" < Duh_Stoopid.msg -b $Duh_Snoops me@mydomain.com
As you can see it's supposed to Bcc to a couple of accounts. What happens is that the message arrives in all the appropriate places, except the Bcc shows all the names/addresses. Both locally and at a gmail account. Been running a version of this for years, using various flavors of Windows/BSD/Linux. Never had a problem with Bcc before. There's no error messages to help either.
Duh_Listing is the names of attachments, Duh_Subject and Duh_Stoopid.msg are text strings. Issue a mail command:
mailx $Duh_Listing -r me@mydomain.com -s "`echo $Duh_Subject`" < Duh_Stoopid.msg -b $Duh_Snoops me@mydomain.com
As you can see it's supposed to Bcc to a couple of accounts. What happens is that the message arrives in all the appropriate places, except the Bcc shows all the names/addresses. Both locally and at a gmail account. Been running a version of this for years, using various flavors of Windows/BSD/Linux. Never had a problem with Bcc before. There's no error messages to help either.
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Hello, Sorry to hear you are having an issue with mailx not working with the BCC correctly. I did a few tests on my own server and had to tweak the command just a bit to get it to work. At first, all recipients could see the BCC list. After adding "-S smtp=localhost" right after "mailx" then it worked correctly. Below is a form of the sample I used: mailx -S smtp=localhost -r me@example.com -b scott@example.com scottm@myrealdomain.com The email came to my email FROM me@example.com to my scottm@myrealdomain.com and the BCC for scott@example.com did not display. The BCC domain was confirmed to have received the email as it should. I then tested it from your specific server and it was also successful. Give that a try and it should work for you. Kindest Regards, Scott M |
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