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Title: how to send text email from SME 9.1
Post by: oldtony on June 03, 2016, 11:30:30 PM

looking for help in sending text email from SME 9.1
in older versions i could do
echo "some text" | mail -s "subject" emailaddress.
i can not get this now to work.
thank you for any help.

Title: Re: how to send text email from SME 9.1
Post by: CharlieBrady on June 04, 2016, 03:05:43 AM

Quote from: oldtony on June 03, 2016, 11:30:30 PM

i can not get this now to work.

What happens when you try?

Title: Re: how to send text email from SME 9.1
Post by: brianr on June 04, 2016, 11:00:25 AM

I found that:

echo "Hello World" | mail <emailaddress> -s "Subject"

No longer works, whereas it used to (email is sent with blank subject)

The order you posted works on 9.1 (I just tried it)