Re: send email from commandline

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Rick Weinbender <lsrwein@central-ph.k12.mo.us>:
> What is the correct syntax for sending
> mail from the command line.
> (server runs qmail and mutt)
> *
> I found the following, but doesn't seem to work(below)
> 
> mail -s "some subject" user1@domain.com
> 
> I want to incorporate this into a script but when I enter it
> at the commandline it acts like it is needing more.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Rick
> 
> 

Are you giving it any input?

echo "body" | mail -s "some subject" user1@domain.com

or

mail -s "some subject" user1@domain.com < test.file

Jeffrey