Unable to send email via echo to show SAS session status

[lydiawawa]

Hi,

I'm using the following code to send an email when an SAS session finishes successfully or fails midway. For some reason, I never receive the emails. 

${sasroot}/sas -autoexec $autoexec -memsize 8G -sortsize 4G -cpucount 4 \
-sysin $sascoderoot/$progname.sas \
-log $projlog/${progname}_${logtimestamp}.log \
-print $projout/${progname}_${logtimestamp}_${sector}.lst \
-noterminal -nodms -errorabend; rc=$?
echo $?

# For SAS: 0=ok, 1=warn, >1=error.
if [ $rc -gt 1 ];
then
subject="$sector $jobdesc process was unsuccessful"
msg="$sascoderoot/$progname.sas sector $sector had errors (SAS rc=$rc). Please Review the log ($projlog/${progname}_${logtimestamp}.log). Please do not reply to sender."
echo -e "$msg" | mail -s "$subject" -r "$sender" "$failemail"
exit $rc
else
subject="$sector $jobdesc process was successful"
msg="$sascoderoot/$progname.sas $sector sector ran successfully. Please do not reply to sender."
echo -e "$msg" | mail -s "$subject" -r "$sender" "$supportemail"

autoexe, sysin, log and lst are all successfully executed. `$sender`, `$failemail` and `
$supportemail` are all defined. What could be the possible cause?

[Sajid01]

Looks like you are running a shell script. Assuming it to be a bash script.

I suggest the following.

1. Add this to the top of the script and capture the output to another file.
set -x
Thus if your script is send_mail.sh then for debugging run
./send_mail.sh > debug_output.txt
2.Echo all shell variable to see if they are assigned proper values.
Thus you musg echo $msg, $subject $sender etc
3.Unless you are using escaped characters the consider removing -e after echo in
echo - $msg | ...
4.I  prefer enclosing shell variable in curly braces. Thus
${msg} in place of $msg,  ${subject} in place of $subject.
.5.Read the debug_output.txt and you may get an idea of whats going on.

[lydiawawa]

Hi, I added the debugging feature and echo shell variables. There were no issues. On debug_output.txt, I can only echo before if [ $rc -gt 1 ]; , if I place it at the end, the echo code will not output. Still no email received.

[Kurt_Bremser]

Without being able to test anything (no UNIX available):

• remove the semicolon after the if
• use double square brackets ( if [[ $rc -gt 1 ]] )
• where is your fi to terminate the if?

[Sajid01]

Hello I have modified the operative portion of your email script.
This works on bash shell on Red Hat / Cent. Adjust to your script.
Reply if you are having issues

#!/bin/bash
set -x
##Variable definitions
SECTOR=10
JOBDESC=some_job
PROJLOG=projlog
PROGNAME=program
SAS_CODE_ROOT="your_root_path"
LOG_TIME_STAMP=`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H_%M_%S`
SENDER="info@example.com"
SUPPORT_EMAIL="info@example.com"
FAIL_EMAIL="info@example.com"
RETURN_CODE=0;
#### Send emai1####
if [[ ${RETURN CODE} -gt 1 ]];
then
SUBJECT="${SECTOR}+ ${JOBDESC} process was unsuccessful"
MSG= "${SAS_CODE_ROOT}/${PROGNAME}.sas SECTOR ${SECTOR had errors (SAS Return Code is ${RETURN CODE}). Please Review the log (/${PROJLOG}/${PROGNAME}_${LOG_TIME_STAMP}.log).
Please do not reply to SENDER echo ${MSG}"
echo -e "${MSG}" | mailx -s "${SUBJECT}" -r "${SENDER}" "${FAIL_EMAIL}"
exit ${RETURN CODE} 
else

SUBJECT="${SECTOR} ${JOBDESC) process was successful"
MSG="${SAS_CODE_ROOT}/${PROGNAME}.sas ${SECTOR} SECTOR ran successfully. Please do not reply to SENDER"
echo -e "${MSG}" | mailx -s "${SUBJECT}" -r "${SENDER]" "${SUPPORT_EMAIL}" 
fi

[lydiawawa]

I applied changes suggested by both responses (fi was present in the program, I made a typo when I made this post). There is still no email.

${sasroot}/sas -autoexec ${autoexec} -memsize 8G -sortsize 4G -cpucount 4 \
-sysin ${sascoderoot}/${progname}.sas \
-log ${projlog}/${progname}_${logtimestamp}.log \
-print ${projout}/${progname}_${logtimestamp}_${sector}.lst \
-noterminal -nodms -errorabend; rc=$?
echo $?

# For SAS: 0=ok, 1=warn, >1=error.
if [[ ${rc} -gt 1 ]]
then
        subject="${sector}+ ${jobdesc} process was unsuccessful"
        msg="${sascoderoot}/${progname}.sas sector ${sector} had errors (SAS rc=${rc}). Please Review the log (/${projlog}/${progname}_${logtimestamp}.log). Please do not reply to sender."
        echo -e "${msg}" | mailx  -s "${subject}" -r "${sender}" "${failemail}"
        exit ${rc}
else
        subject="${sector}+ ${jobdesc} process was successful"
        msg="${sascoderoot}/${progname}.sas ${sector} sector ran successfully. Please do not reply to sender."
        echo -e "${msg}" | mailx  -s "${subject}" -r "${sender}" "${supportemail}"
fi

[Sajid01 · Accepted solution]

The script I gave works. My presumption is that you are running Linux .
Please test to see only the portion of the code I gave on your system. In place of info@example.com have your email address.
If that does not work then try this

echo -e "Hello" | mailx  -s "Test" -r "Your email id" "email id"

If that does not work, then what is your OS and what shell you are using. (echo ${SHELL} shold give info about your shell).
Do approach your OS admin for assistance,

[lydiawawa]

It's some problem on my server. The code itself should be correct.

[SASKiwi]

Have you tried the mailx command by typing in the correct details at an OS command line? If it doesn't work from a command line it surely wont work in a script. If that's the case then get help from your IT administrator to get it working.