Stephen and Kenneth,
Thank you very much for your help.
I tried 'MAILRC=/dev/nul' which I put in /etc/mail.rc as
'set MAILRC=/dev/null'
But I did not identify that this changed any behavior.
The link below was very helpful Stephen thank you for your kindness in digging this out for me. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-send-e-mail-alerts-o...
In the end the above link gave me a grammar and syntax that worked, but it is requiring a change in every line of code that the 'mail' command had been used. the following syntax and grammer gave me what I needed.
echo | mail -s "Subject" -r from@address -q /loc/to/body.txt email@address
Thank you again for your help!!!
Greg