Re: mailx -r option

Joshua Andrews <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:11:27 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Diane Prange wrote:

>We are moving a system from Solaris to RedHat 9.0.  I am working on
>converting perl scripts to work on RedHat 9.0.  Most of the scripts use
>the BSD mailx program to mail out notices with the "-r" flag which
>allows you to specify who the letter is from.  The /bin/mail program
>which comes with RedHat 9.0 does not have an option for this.  Does
>anyone know of a way to script mailing an e-mail specifying -r, who it
>is from, -s, the subject, -c copy to, and -b blind copy.  Or does anyone
>know of source for BSD mailx which will run on RedHat 9.0?
>
>Any help or leads to help will be appreciated. 
>
>Diane
>
I think RedHat 9 includes the mailx package but the binary is mail not 
mailx.