Question about the mail command

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Sun May 1 09:21:45 EDT 2005


though if your getting output from a web form you may just want to use 
a form handler. I seem to remember one called soupermail to have some 
nice features. I think it's on sourceforge.
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 
10:55:47PM -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:
> Yup, totally got it: thanks all of you.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina 
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> On Behalf Of Lorenzo Taylor
> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: Question about the mail command
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> the Mail command should allow an EOF eharacter, usually ^D on a line by
> itself to end a message.  This should also work if redirecting a file.
> There is always an EOF character at the end of every file, so you need to do
> nothing but save it.
> Any time a redirected file ends, the input stream is automatically
> terminated, and the program therefore terminates normally.  But if you are
> not redirecting a file, and you are just typing a message in at the prompt,
> hit ^D and the program will terminate and send the message.
> 
> Lorenzo
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