Sendmail on command line problem

The following presumes that you have the mailx package installed:

1. Write your desired message body out to a file. In this case, we will call the file example.txt

2. Uuencode your attachment, and append this to example.txt

3. Execute the following command, where "recipient_list" is a comma delimited list of email addresses:

I use the sendmail command. I describe the sender with -f option,the -s option does not go with sendmail, my instruction looks in such a way:

#sendmail -f user.test recipient_list

Insert whatever headers you require at the top of the message body. i.e. example.txt will look like:


Now you send the message:


This will result in a message sent to the recipient list from sender@example.com with a subject "Test Message" a body of "This is my example message body" and an attachment "attachment.zip"

You can add additional header information as wanted/needed (i.e. add "X-Extra-Header-Info: Test" beneath the subject header above, and you will find that in the headers section of the message.)

Thank you!