Multiple e-mail addresses on alerts

Hi Bevan,

Have you tried using a comma? I don’t know whether that’s what’s needed but sometimes the simplest options are the best.

Regards

Garry

I separate multiple addresses with spaces and that works for me. However, I’m using mailx on unix so perhaps it’s different for Windows.

Try a comma with no space.

or maybe try enclosing the entire list of addressees in quotes

I don’t have a real solution but had a similar problem where not all the addressees were getting their copies.  The best workaround our network and exchange folks could come up with was for me to make myself the first addee and then create a rule in outlook to have the messages forwarded to the other folks that needed it.

Eventually, we implemented Automate7(R) which had a more robust tools.

A Unix based option which I’m leaning more towards is the use of the .mailrc file under /home/hci. When using multiple email addresses, create an alias with the intended email addresses in the .mailrc file like so:

alias ALIAS-NAME email_1@whereever.com email_2@anotherplace.com

Then, when using it in a script, it would look like this:

mail -s “Subject goes here” ALIAS-NAME </some-dir/textfile.txt

I believe it will work for mailx command.

I had this same issue.

What you need to do is quote the email addresses seperated by a comma with no spaces.

Ex: “email1@email.com,email2@email.com,email3,@email.com”

The way you pass multiple addresses, what you use for separators and whether you must place them all inside quotation marks depends on the mail client you are passing them to. If you are using mail, mailx, sendmail or whatever, you must conform to that software’s addressing requirements. One size does not fit all. If you need to use spaces, tcl may need to see quotes.

Hello Bevan,

How are you passing the alert emails to the Exchange server?