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I was using the following mail command in my crontab to which worked flawlessly until we re installed our mail server last Friday:



echo "Testing 123" | mail -s "ECS PostDate Processed" "[email protected] [email protected]" -- -r "[email protected]" -F "ServerCronJobs"


previously the "--" would rout the command line parameters to sendmail to send from a name and add a reply-to address. Now it seems the -- is being ignored and all of the extra parameters are being treated as email addresses. so the email is going to:



from root <[email protected]>

to me, chrish, -r, noreply, -F, ServerCronJobs


What is missing now?


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mail points to one of the alternatives.



ls -l /usr/bin/mail

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan  5  2011 /usr/bin/mail -> /etc/alternatives/mail



ls -l /etc/alternatives/mail

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jan  5  2011 /etc/alternatives/mail -> /usr/bin/bsd-mailx


You were probably using another mail program in the past. Try to figure out which it was.



After you have installed the right package, then change the alternative like this:



sudo update-alternatives --config mail

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