[lug] redirecting into mail

[Orion Poplawski]

On 01/31/2014 03:34 PM, stltner at indra.com wrote:
> lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> redirecting into mail
> 
>                                                   January 31, 2014
> 
> It is time to ask for help.  For some time, I've had dial-in access to the
> ISP, and got sent email service by typing email space and uploading the
> email file with a /Address/Subject/Text/Period/ format.
> A sneaky redirect into mail.
> 
> The ISP no longer supports dial-in access, so I come in via SSH and thought
> I could manually redirect mail files into mail. Doing
> 
>  mail < abc.msg
> 
> does not work. Mail goes into interactive mode. Trying
> 
>   mail Address < abc.msg
> 
> with a /Subject/Text/Period/ file format kinda works. The subject is lost
> and the subject line shows up in the body of the message.
> 
> So Unix/tcsh is dumping a line feed into my command line ahead of the
> redirect string.
> 
> Is this a 50 year blunder that nobody documented, or is there some setup
> the ISP should be using?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ernie Stiltner

many versions of mail allow:

mail -s 'This is the subject' Address < abc.msg


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