ka1ifq wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:34, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I try to send an E-mail with the content of an ASCII file as the body.
>> I do this with the following command
>>   mail -s subj [EMAIL PROTECTED] < licinfo.txt
>>
>> When I give the command on a Fedora (several versions tested) the E-mail is
>> recieved with the expected text in the body.
>> If I give the command on an OpenSuse 10.2 system An E-mail which is
>> unreadable is recieved at the other end.
>>
>> How can I get the same behaviour on the OpenSuse system as on the Fedora
>> system?
>>
>>                   Jouk Jansen
> 
> man mail says the following.
> 
> -q file
>               Start the message with the contents of the specified file.  May 
> be given in send mode
>               only.
> 

cat file | mail -s 'some subject' [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Always worked as well


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