[TriLUG] Command line mail

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:30, Greg Brown wrote:
> Using /bin/mail I don' t think this is possible.
> 
> I used to use mailx in the Solaris world to do just this type of thing 
> but, in the RH world anyway, mailx doesn't seem to have been ported to 
> Linux.  If memory serves, and for what it's worth, the mailx command 
> used to be  'mailx -s 'my subject' -r opennms at myhost.mydomain.com 
> sendingto at address.com <imported.mail.file'.

/bin/mail and mailx *are* the same thing in Red Hat Linux.
bash$ rpm -qf /bin/mail
mailx-8.1.1-22

However, it looks like the version of mailx included in Red Hat doesn't
have a -r option.

--Jeremy

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