Barney Wells writes:
> I am using mutt .93.1 on SCO UNIX 5.0.5.
> A few weeks ago I asked about attaching files;
> 
> mutt -x -s testing -a test.file username </dev/null
> 
> This works great. Now I want to send text that is
> not in a file. It is fields out of my database. 
> I would like this to appear in the body of the e-mail
> message. Here is an example:
> 
> mutt -x -s testing "this is what I want to say" username </dev/null
> 
> As you know this syntax does not work.

 /command/to/extract/your/message/from/the/database | mutt -s testing username

 -x is not needed because mutt is not used interactively if used like above.

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