Problem w/ -s switch on mailx

[Sandman!]

To troubleshoot further you can look in the "/var/spool/mqueue" dir on prod and see if the mail to be sent out has a Subject line. This eliminates whether the problem is with the server sending out the email or somewhere downstream (mail relay host). Also do the prod and test servers use the same mail relays? After executing the mailx cmd look up its Q-ID and grep for the Subject line i.e.

# cd /var/spool/mqueue
# mailx
--- now get the Q-ID of the email to be sent out
# mailq
# grep Subject qf

[Dennis Handly]

>Here's the example with 'set -x' trace on (this test results in a good subject line returned to me):

Are you saying when you add "set -x" it works? Or you didn't instrument the bad one?

>Sandman: To troubleshoot further you can look in the "/var/spool/mqueue" dir on prod and

Won't you have to stop sendmail so it remains in the queue long enough to look at?