Question

I have a script that send email using sendEmail (CentOS shell)
script is:

sendEmail -vvv -u "TestCompany, Inc.: USB Added" -f [e-mail] -t [e-mail] -s ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com -m "USB Activity" -o tls=aut
o username=[e-mail] password=password

So far this works fine.

Now i create a ConfigFile as follows:

Company=TestCompany, Inc.
FromEmail=[e-mail]
Password=password
ToEmail=[e-mail]
Smtp=ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com

and Now I modify my script as follow:

#!/bin/sh
i=1;
while IFS="=" read VAR VALUE
do
        VAR="${VAR// }"
        Values[$i]=${VALUE}
        let i++;
done <  ConfigFile

sendEmail -vvv -u "${Values[1]}: USB Added" -f ${Values[2]} -t ${Values[4]} -s ${Values[5]} -m "Test Email" -o tls=auto username=${Values[2
]} password=${Values[3]}

I get following error:

'25 failed: IO::Socket::INET: Bad hostname 'ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.comempt to ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
Apr 21 12:11:35 box2 sendEmail[26378]: HINT => Try specifying a different mail relay with the -s option.

Now I’m unable to understand that why I’m getting this error. even when i try to echo Values it shows me correct values. then where I’m doing wrong.? Please help. thanks.

Answer 1

Notice the singlequote that floated to the start of the line in the log message? Your data file probably has \r\n for its newlines, which doesn’t work very well on Unix; the carriage return is being read as part of the hostname. Run dos2unix on it.