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Subject:    Re: [CentOS] Conversion from Centos 5 to Centos 7 & mailx changes
From:       Stephen John Smoogen <smooge () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-09-05 16:34:52
Message-ID: CANnLRdiMxXJU-Ye4ZfaD0SToX9poDKfnQPU9XaXpuwX2rkEo2g () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 10:19, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec@pomec.net> wrote:

> 
> 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'
> 
> 
No that is meant to be a shell environment variable so that it does not try
to read /etc/mail.rc.. if you have it in /etc/mail.rc its not going to help
any.


> 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@address -q /loc/to/body.txt email@address
> 
> Thank you again for your help!!!
> 
> Greg
> 
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