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Old 11-02-2016
Power Mail command does not work for Distribution List emails
mail works for my personal email address

Code:
mailx -s "Alert" mymail@mycomp.com<results.txt

mail fails for the Teams Distribution List (copied from outlook)

Code:
 
 mailx -s "Alert" #My-Team@mycomp.com<results.txt

This was the first problem.

The second problem is if I have the subject [-s] line as long as 180 characters the mail command does not work (no emails received.)

Please help with both my queries.
# 2  
Old 11-02-2016
If it is a windows file you need to run
Code:
dos2unix windows.txt mailing_list.txt  # example to clean it up first
echo "Message" | mailx -s "Subject" $(<mailing_list.txt)

I you use a file like your example you have add it to your personal .mailrc file or the /etc/aliases file first - need root for that. Then the alias filename cannot match any other alias files or any username
# 3  
Old 11-03-2016
The # is special in the shell and must be quoted. Put the mail address in quotes!
Code:
mailx -s "Alert" "#My-Team@mycomp.com" <results.txt

--
Maybe you can chop your overlong subject?
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# 4  
Old 11-03-2016
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MadeInGermany
The # is special in the shell and must be quoted. Put the mail address in quotes!
Code:
mailx -s "Alert" "#My-Team@mycomp.com" <results.txt

--
Maybe you can chop your overlong subject?
How can I chop ? I could not understand the term "chop".

Is there a limitation on the length of the subject line ?
# 5  
Old 11-03-2016
Cut everything that is beyond MAX characters.
Example with expr
Code:
MAX=8
subject="a too long text"
subject=`expr x"$subject" : x"\(.\{1,${MAX}\}\)"`
echo "$subject"
a too lo

And use
Code:
mailx -s "$subject" "#My-Team@mycomp.com" <results.txt

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