UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am trying to add a subject to the email that is sent, what are the codes used for setting the subject?

or can someone direct me to a site that shows what the other codes are tat i could use with command line

this is the crobjob command i am using that sends the email at the moment.

mysqldump -ce --user=***** --password=******* thedatabasenametosend | gzip | uuencode dbbackup_e.gz | mail db-bu@mail.com



thanks in advacne

mail -s "subject for discussion" user@domain.com

Hi,

Thank you but i did try this before and tried again but also included the " 's but still it does not send anything with this in the line in my cronjob on my unix server.

any ideas why this wont work?

thanks again for your help.

Jason