[lug] mail command sytax per subject

[Walter Pienciak]

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.

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

Walter