I have encountered a situation that is best served by having the HP3000 send a
canned e-mail message to a fixed address.  SENDMAIL, of some obsolete version,
is present on the HP.  I do not need a MTA running on the HP, I just need it to
perform as an MUA on demand. I previously have used SENDMAIL on Linux and Unix
to send pre-composed messages using file pipelining and the sendmail -t option.
But I cannot determine how to pass options to sendmail or how to pipeline from
the MPE CLI.

How is sendmail used from the command prompt to do this?  When I try to
experiment I get this:


:RUN SENDMAIL.CURRENT.SENDMAIL

can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

END OF PROGRAM


The documentation that I can locate on the system itself is not readable
through the 'more' utility.

What I wish to accomplish to run from the MPE/iX CLI the Unix CLI equivalent of:

cat MSGFILE | sendmail -t

where MSGFILE contains the from, to, subject, date, and message body.

Any suggestions are welcomed.



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