Add subject line for mail

[Ed Hon]

I have a cron script that sends mail to root, if it finds a certain condition. The command looks like 'echo "Bad stuff just happened" | mail root ', but there is no subject shown, if I view it with elm. How do I include a subject line? Thanks.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Use the '-s' option with mailx, like:

# mailx -s "This is the subject!" root < /tmp/mailmsg

...JRF...

[Dan Hetzel · Accepted solution]

Hi Ed,

Use mailx instead of mail, you'll be able to add a subject flag (-s) like this:

echo "Bad stuff just happened" | mailx -s "Bad stuff" root

Best regards

Dan

[Darrel Louis]

You can use the following:

mailx -s "hello world" root < filename

Check man mailx for more options.

Good Luck

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

Use 'echo "Bad stuff just happened" | elm -s "Bad stuff" root'