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-on-a-centos-vps-for-system-monitoring 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 at address -q /loc/to/body.txt email at address Thank you again for your help!!! Greg