I haven't seen mailx used before. What I do know is mailx wants a file. Here are some other examples you can use.
#!/usr/bin/perl my $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail'; open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -t"); print MAIL "To: $SENDER\n"; print MAIL "From: $RECP\n"; print MAIL "$Here_is_where_the_body_of_your_message_goes"; close MAIL;

or this using MIME::Base64, MIME::QuotedPrint and Mail::Sendmail 0.75 which will place a message in the body of the mail and encapsulate the message as a file. You will have to install the modules.

#!/usr/bin/perl use MIME::QuotedPrint; use MIME::Base64; use Mail::Sendmail 0.75; %mail = ( SMTP => $SMTPSERVER, from => $SENDER, to => $RECP, subject => $Subject, ); $boundary = "====" . time() . "===="; $mail{'content-type'} = "multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$boundary\""; $message = encode_qp( "Text of message"); $file = 'message.txt'; # This is the file name $mail{body} = encode_base64( $message ); $boundary = '--'.$boundary; $mail{body} = <<END_OF_BODY; $boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable $message $boundary Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="$file" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$file" $mail{body} $boundary-- END_OF_BODY sendmail(%mail) || print "Error: $Mail::Sendmail::error\n";

Also look under snippits there is an example using Net::SMTP by khippy.

I hope this is helpful.
Gyro
Update: Took out formatting code


In reply to Re: mailx by Gyro
in thread Getting input to mailx by nkpgmartin

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