E-mail attatchments from shell prompt????

[KarveR]

Hi all, I'm a newbie here and also to SCO UNIX, (about a year now) and I have a problem ....<br>
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Is it possible to send attatchments to e-mail, i.e a html or xls file along with a mail message from the shell prompt?<br>
Can this be done, if so would one of you kind people let me know how please, <br>
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thanks in advance.<br>
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KarveR

 

[AndyBo]

Here's a dodgy (ie, quick, dirty, and untested bit of shell script that may do what you want. I know it's not quite what you asked for, but it may point you in the right direction. (Backslashes inserted to escape newlines for readability.)<br>
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FILE_TO_SEND=/path/to/my/file<br>
SUBJECT=&quot;My subject line&quot;<br>
MESSAGE=&quot;My message to whomever I'm sending the message to.&quot;<br>
RECIPIENT=<A HREF="mailto:somebody@somewhere.com">somebody@somewhere.com</A><br>
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echo &quot;${MESSAGE}\n\n----- Cut message below and save contents for uudecode \<br>
-----\n\n`uuencode ${FILE_TO_SEND} ${FILE_TO_SEND}`\n\n-----Uuencoded text ends above -----&quot; ¦ mailx -s &quot;${SUBJECT}&quot; ${RECIPIENT}<br>
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Hope this helps, some. It assumes that the recipient has the ability to save the message, cut out the uuencoded text, and the run uudecode against it.<br>
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Alternatively, if it's a text file, replace the &quot;uuencode&quot; bit with something like `cat my_file`.<br>

 

[KarveR]

Many thanks, sorry it took a while to get back to you.<br>
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This is perfect for what I need, and works a treat.<br>
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To be a pain tho, can you suggest how i would do this with multiple files for the one message?<br>
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Thanks again,<br>
Kev

 

[AndyBo]

No problem - glad to be of help And sorry for the late reply myself, but I've been afk for a few days <br>
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Just put a for loop around the bit of code doing the uucp. ie,<br>
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FILES=&quot;file1 file2 file3 file4 file5&quot;<br>
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for FILE_TO_SEND in ${FILES}<br>
do<br>
echo &quot;${MESSAGE}\n\n----- Cut message below and save contents for uudecode \<br>
----\n\n`uuencode ${FILE_TO_SEND} ${FILE_TO_SEND}`\n\n-----Uuencoded text ends above -----&quot; ¦<br>
mailx -s &quot;${SUBJECT}&quot; ${RECIPIENT}<br>
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done<br>
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Should do what you require

 

[KarveR]

Many thanks, with only slight mods, I am now E-Mailing Our customer reports out from cron (all 66 of them and rising) saving me a huge chunk of Monday morning for sleeping in <br>
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Sorry for the delay again, but this Y2K lark is turning into a drag!<br>
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Still, Happy holidays and thanks again,<br>
<br>
Kev

 

[KarveR]

Blimey, 2 years on and a little wiser, also for anyone who wants to do this:
vi msg
insert all your message

uuencode filename filename |mail -s&quot;Subject&quot; recipient@place.com < msg I can't have sent that email, it says from Superuser.