Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi friends

I am trying to send mail through a unix server.
I am using following command

Code:

mailx -s "THIS IS TEST" jhon@gmail.com

Whenever i am typing the above command it is going to next line when i press @ on unix server prompt.

so it is taking this command as following

Code:

mailx -s "THIS IS TEST" jhon@
gmail.com

because of this i am unable to send mail. Is there any problem with the server? Or should i check settings into putty?
Please help.

This is pretty odd. Sounds like some trouble with your terminal. It sounds like PUTTY and your server don't agree on what @ means. There's probably a PUTTY setting to resolve this, but it'd help to know what your server is to figure out exactly what ought to be changed to what. What's your server? uname -a if you don't know.

Try typing control-D after entering some text to send. Executing mailx in this fashion, makes mailx expect you to enter the body text of the message next. Y
ou can hit RETURN to enter multiple lines.

It doesn't end until you press control-D. Also note you can do this...

Code:

cat mymessage.txt | mailx -s "subect" user@host.com

Agree with Corona, odd terminal settings.
In putty options|preferences, set terminal type to vt100 or xterm.
That works with most terminals.