Multiple e-mail addresses on alerts

[Bevan Richards]

I am on Version 5.7 Rev 2 on Windows Server 2008 boxes. I have the alerts sending an e-mail message to our facilityies exchange server. The problem is that it will only use the 1st address and not send to multiple addresses or to a list name in the exchange server. I have tried seperating a list of addresses with a simi-colon and with a space to no avail.

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[garry r fisher]

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

[David Harrison]

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.

[Nate Kruse]

Try a comma with no space.

[Glenn Friedenreich]

or maybe try enclosing the entire list of addressees in quotes

[Vince Angulo]

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.

[Michael Lacriola]

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.

[Rod Kromrey]

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”

[Chris Williams]

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.

[Kirby Knight]

Hello Bevan,

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

[Bevan Richards]

Kerby, this is how I have gotten it to work. I have found I have a 3 address limit however…

“richarb@rwmc.net,Jerome.Powers@rwmc.net,AA-OnCall@rwmc.net”

We have decided to send alerts to myself, the ‘new guy’, and to an account that is connected to a blackberry. So far this has worked.

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