[ale] mailx

[Armsby John-G16665]

Thanks, I will try it.

John


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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Mike Murphy
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 5:46 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] mailx


on a fedora core 1 machine (which is similar to RHES3): [mmurphy at xwing mmurphy]$ rpm -qa |grep mailx mailx-8.1.1-31.1

[mmurphy at xwing mmurphy]$ rpm -q --list mailx-8.1.1-31.1 /bin/mail /etc/mail.rc /usr/bin/Mail /usr/lib/mail.help /usr/lib/mail.tildehelp /usr/share/man/man1/Mail.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz

So it seems that mailx == /bin/mail. Looking at the usage statement of 
/bin/mail on that machine and comparing it to that of mailx on a solaris 
machine, it seems that that mail has the same major flags that mailx 
does (like -s subject, etc).

So, I suspect you can use /bin/mail as a mailx substitute safely. You 
might want to symlink /bin/mailx to /bin/mail for something...

Mike



Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> We have RedHat Enterprise update 3 running.  We have a group who want 
> to
> use mailx with korn shell scripts. 
>  
> I tried to install the mailx rpm from the install CD but rpm says that
> mailx is already installed.  I can not "locate" "mailx" anywhere.  I 
> have used mailx from HPUX and so I know to expect the test based mail 
> tool to come up when I type "mailx".  Is mailx on Linux aliased to somethng?
>  
> John
>  
> 
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