mail command can't seem to make it put a subject in

[Chrissirhc]

I'm running this command:

mail chris@domain.com < /home/dir/mailfile.txt

And it doesn't put a subject because I haven't asked it to, however, when I run this

mail -s test chris@domain.com < /home/dir/mailfile.txt

It doesn't put the subject test in there for some reason.

Why and how would I do it so it puts a subject in there?

Thanks,

Chris

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

Try mailx instead of mail. Have you try read the manual?

dbase77