Error sending message. child exited 67 (user unknown)

#1 08-29-2008, 03:44 PM

Rajiv Bhan <rsb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After running, a pdf report is generated, which I try to send to
> my e-mail address using Mutt:

> mutt -a report.pdf -s "Report for 2008-Mar-28"
> myemailaddr...@mydomain.com < "."

I have the same problem in my .bash script:

the following command works fine in my script:

mutt -s "subject" -a /tmp/test.txt myname@yahoo.com < $2

but if I do

MAILLINE="mutt -s \"subject\" -a /tmp/test.txt myname@yahoo.com < $2"
and then
$MAILLINE

I get the (user unknown.) error too.

Max

#2 08-29-2008, 04:47 PM

max <maxxx126@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rajiv Bhan <rsb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> After running, a pdf report is generated, which I try to send to
>> my e-mail address using Mutt:
>
>> mutt -a report.pdf -s "Report for 2008-Mar-28"
>> myemailaddr...@mydomain.com < "."
>
> I have the same problem in my .bash script:
>
> the following command works fine in my script:
>
> mutt -s "subject" -a /tmp/test.txt myname@yahoo.com < $2
>
> but if I do
>
> MAILLINE="mutt -s \"subject\" -a /tmp/test.txt myname@yahoo.com < $2"
> and then
> $MAILLINE
>
> I get the (user unknown.) error too.
>
> Max

You can't put the redirection symbol '<' within the quotes, it won't
be recognized as a redirection, so mutt is seeing < and whatever $2
expands to as user names.

If you really want to embed the < within the quotes, you need to eval
$MAILLINE, but you might need to experiment with the syntax since eval
effectively re-scans the expanded variable.

Jerry

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