Mail problem

[Gustavo J. Mata]

Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Gustavo J. Mata wrote:
>> I distribute an e-mail newsletter to a large number of
>> recipients (approximately 5500).I have a simple script
>> that goes through the list of recipients and sends an
>> email to each one in turn.
>> This script was running fine in a machine which
>> unfortunately died a few days ago.
>> I'm now using another machine with Fedora Core 6
>> installed. The problem now is that the script will
>> only send a fraction of the total list and then stop.
>> I'm getting no error messages.
>> Any hints?
>
> It would help if you posted the script.
>

Here it goes:

#!/bin/bash
# This mails a message, contained in filename, with
# subject topic, to a list of mail addresses mailist
# Usage: batchmail mail_list subject text

exec < $1
while read line ; do
        mailx  -s "$2"  $line  < $3
done
exit