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Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 10:13:20 AM -0400 From: Tim Evans tkevans@tkevans.com

On 05/19/2015 10:07 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote:

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We have CEntOS 6.3 on DELL server. WE try to use following mail command but failed. This command perfect work on CentOS 5.X. $ mail -s "test..." user1@sun.com -- -f NoReply@App.MD.gov test . EOT $ /home/app/oracle/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/app/oracle/dead.letter

problem come from "-- -f NoReply@App.MD.gov". But it work correctly on CentOS 5.x. Anyone know how to fix it?

CentOS 6 man page says '-f' means "mail the contents of the file." YOu probably want '-r'

With 5.x "mail" was /usr/bin/mail, and "--" lets you pass sendmail options (where the -f is the "From"). With 6.x and 7, "mail" is symlinked to mailx, which doesn't seem to have the "--" flag and the ability to pass the sendmail options. In both mail and mailx, a bare "-f" is a read from file.