[lug] mail command sytax per subject

[D. Stimits]

Walter Pienciak wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Rob Mohr wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > After reading the man pages, no luck.  And my unix book has it, but it
> > does not work.
> >
> > What I am trying to do.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > mail marv at foobar.com
> > Subject:Sending foo.txt
> > Manually type in foo.txt file here
> > .
> >
> > The above works to the extent that it appends the Subject header, and it
> > picks up the body of the text.
> >
> > I am just being a bit fussy in that I want the subject header to picked up
> > with the redirection of the foo.txt file
> >
> > Why am I doing this?   I have a requirement from GE Corp  "Don't send any
> > attachments.  Append files together.  (Use MS)"  My mail program is pine.
> > I am trying to concatenate  the files and then send onto GE just from
> > the % prompt using mail utility; bypassing pine.
> >
> > As a workaround, I will put
> > Subject:  My cat'd files to GE corp are in the body of this email
> >
> > as the first line to the transmittal letter file.
> >
> > Thanks LUG
> > eof
> 
> You may be dealing with several "mail" programs on your system.
> 
> Find your various mail programs ( find / -name "mail*") and try
> your command using the full pathname of each.

Or type "which mail".

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> mailx is the one that works as you expect on many systems.
> 
> Walter
> 
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