[lug] mail command sytax per subject

J. Wayde Allen wallen at lug.boulder.co.us
Mon Jul 9 13:40:58 MDT 2001


On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Rob Mohr wrote:

> mail -s "Sending foo.txt file" marv at foobar.com < foo.txt
> 
> This sends the file ok, but I don't get a subject header. And this is the
> syntax given in my unix book.

I've done this exact thing before, and your syntax looks correct.  Just to
be certain I cut and pasted your example above onto my command line,
modified the address to send to me, and it worked just fine.  I'll try it
again with your address in place to see if it still works.

- Wayde
  (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)




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