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'find' and 'sendmail'

sendmail -t <emails/new/email001
 

find emails/new -type f -exec sendmail -t \< {} \;
 

<... Unbalanced '<'
<... User unknown
 

find emails/new -type f -print | xargs -p -l sendmail -t '<'
sendmail -t < emails/new/test1 ?...
 

sendmail -t <emails/new/test1
 

You are correct. The space is a bogus issue.

I think the problem here is that "<" is a shell meta-character, but "find" is passing that directly to sendmail, bypassing the shell. So there is nothing to interpret "<" as file redirection.

Simplest would be to write a short shell script to mail one file, and then use that shell script as command that is run by "find ... -exec".
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reply to DprssdIsntFn
Umm... are these queue files or regular text files you're looking to mail. If the former, why not simply invoke sendmail with the QueueDirectory option and the "run queue now" option?
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Thanx for the responses so far. To answer some of the questions:

These are regular files.

Here are some sample attempts and corresponding results:

1} This example works:

test.em
 
#!/bin/sh
sendmail -t <emails/new/test4
exit
 

# ./test.em
#
 

automaild
 
#!/bin/sh
 
#
#       Create the list of emails to be processed
#
echo 'create list of emails'
find emails/new/ -type f -print > email.list
cat email.list
echo ' '
 
#
#       Create the arguments to be processed by sendmail
#
echo 'create sendmail arguments'
sed 's/ema/\<ema/' email.list > email.send
#sed 's/ema/\sendmail -t <ema/' email.list > email.send
cat email.send
echo ' '
 
#
#       Send the email
#
echo 'send email'
#cat email.send | xargs -p -l sendmail -t
cat email.send | ( xargs -p -l sendmail -t )
#cat email.send | xargs -p -l
#cat email.send | exec {}  \;
echo ' '
 
#
#       Create the arguments to be processed by mv
#
echo 'create mv arguments'
sed 's/\([^ ][^ ]*\)/\1 \1/' email.list > email.temp1
echo ' '
sed 's/new/sent/g' email.temp1 > email.temp2
echo ' '
sed 's/sent/new/' email.temp2 > email.mv
cat email.mv
echo ' '
 
#
#       Move the email to the sent directory
#
#cat email.mv | xargs -l mv
 

# ./automaild
create list of emails
emails/new/test1
emails/new/test2
emails/new/test3
emails/new/test4
 
create sendmail arguments
sendmail -t <emails/new/test1
sendmail -t <emails/new/test2
sendmail -t <emails/new/test3
sendmail -t <emails/new/test4
 
send email
sendmail -t <emails/new/test1 ?...
sendmail -t <emails/new/test2 ?...
sendmail -t <emails/new/test3 ?...
sendmail -t <emails/new/test4 ?...
 
create mv arguments
 
emails/new/test1 emails/sent/test1
emails/new/test2 emails/sent/test2
emails/new/test3 emails/sent/test3
emails/new/test4 emails/sent/test4
 
#
 

send email
sendmail -t <emails/new/test1 ?...y
<emails/new/test1... Unbalanced '<'
<emails/new/test1... User unknown
Saving message in dead.letter
dead.letter: line 0: <emails/new/test1... Unbalanced '<'
dead.letter: line 0: <emails/new/test1... Unbalanced '<'
 

Why not use mailx instead of trying to figure out sendmail?