Thank you!  That was exactly what I was after.

On Monday 04 December 2000 09:35 pm, you wrote:

> > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, praedor wrote:
> > I am almost there with this command:
> >
> > mail -s "ip update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
> If you 'echo' something and pipe it into the mail command, when the
> echo finishes it will send an End Of File (the equivalent of a
> ctrl-d) to mail. So, you can use an incantation similar to this one:
[...]
> or, if you really want to get fancy:
>
> echo "mail from `hostname` at `hostname -i`" | mail -s "ip
> update message" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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