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Hi! Anybody here can help me how to put a subject using the command mail from Unix SCO 2.1. I can't put a subject to my mail. The output will be viewed using MS Outlook, i need to put a subject in my mail.

Thanks

Do you have a mailx command? It has an option for -s for subject.

Good Day ! Thanks for the info. It helps me in my problem. Is mailx supports the use of cc: and bcc: ? I'm using this command to send a file to unix mail. Do you think there's an option that i can add in my command mailx -s 'Testing' eric < file.txt. I hope that you can give me idea and i hope that i can also help.



Thanks.

You will have to check your man pages - I don't have a SCO system to check for you.

Start of man page for mailx from Solaris:
% man mailx

User Commands mailx(1)

NAME
mailx, mail - interactive message processing system

SYNOPSIS
mailx [ -BdeHiInNURvV~ ] [ -f
[ file | +folder ] ] [ -T file ] [ -u user ]

mailx [ -BdFintUv~ ] [ -b bcc ] [ -c cc ] [ -h number ]
[ -r address ] [ -s subject ] recipient ...

Note that it does have cc and bcc.

As far as how to do the command in a script or from command line, there are many ways:
[code]
#!/bin/csh
#
set defdir = "/usr/local/sysconfigs/daily"
set mailgrp = "`cat /usr/local/bin/admin-mailgrp`"
/usr/bin/mailx -s "Daily Snapshot" $mailgrp < $defdir/snapshot.today
exit

$ mailx -s"Test from `hostname`" myreceipent@mycom.com < ./myfile

and see this thread for another way (see Perderabo's post)

And if you want more info, search this site first for mailx and READ the man page specific to your OS.

I use the option -c but still it's not working. I use the command:
mailx -s 'testing' eric -c tonete < file.txt
Entering the command, it returns this message
"-c... User unknown".
I'll already use man mailx and found out that -c option is not available.

Anyway, i'll just put all the recepients in 'To:' for the meantime. Thanks for the help.