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I am porting scripts from Solaris to RHEL 5.x that contains mailx commands. &nbsp;It looks like Linux does not support the -r for return address in Linux?<br />
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On Solaris, this works:<br />
mailx -r solaris@xyzcorp.com -s &quot;solaris subject&quot; sadams@xyzcorp.com<br />
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but on RHEL 5, it returns:<br />
mailx: invalid option -- r<br />
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Is there an alternative for a return address in Linux using mailx? &nbsp;I would like to avoid changing all these scripts.
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I am porting scripts from Solaris to RHEL 5.x that contains mailx commands.  It looks like Linux does not support the -r for return address in Linux?

On Solaris, this works:
mailx -r solaris@xyzcorp.com -s "solaris subject" sadams@xyzcorp.com

but on RHEL 5, it returns:
mailx: invalid option -- r


Is there an alternative for a return address in Linux using mailx?  I would like to avoid changing all these scripts.

mailx -r not an option in Linux (return address)

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