Hi, first of all my apologies if you consider this highly offtopic, I have already posted this in a couple of linux forums w/o luck, so I wanted to try here since I know that some dba’s are also very good sysadmins. I need some help with a Linux issue, I’m sending an email on Solaris 10 using telnet to port 25 inside a heredoc: telnet localhost 25 <<XXX MAIL FROM: xxx@xxxxxxxxxx RCPT TO: yyy@xxxxxxxxxx DATA SUBJECT: mysubject Nothing here Regards . QUIT XXX However when doing same in Linux RHEL5 it does not work, I mean, nothing is sent, no error returned, but doing this line by line w/o heredoc on Linux, it works. I have another commands with heredoc like sqlplus and they work fine, so issue seems to be with telnet + heredoc, maybe there is something I’m doing wrong, any help would be appreciated. TIA Gabriel Aragon -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l