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  • Note: to set the mailx internal variable, add 'set sendwait' to /etc/mail.rc (at least that's where it is on CentOS 7) Commented Jun 3, 2016 at 1:28
  • I was able to add -S sendwait when calling mailx since I didn't want to change the system configuration, but needed to make my script work when called from a systemd service unit. Commented May 26, 2019 at 15:12