On 13Sep2006 10:54, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Steve Searle wrote: | >Around 03:52pm on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 (UK time), Paul Howarth | >scrawled: | >>I think what you're looking for is: | >>$ echo hello | Mail -s test john.black@xxxxxxxxxx | >>i.e. replace "sendmail" with "Mail" (note the upper case M). | > | >Mail is soft linked to mail, so the upper case M makes no difference. For this kind of reason (not trusting "mail" to be anything in particular) I always call sendmail itself, usually via this script: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/mailsubj So: echo hello | mailsubj -s "subject here" address... Does the same job, but at least you _know_ what its going to do. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ My mind is like a blotter: Soaks it up, gets it backwards.