E-mail using UNIX on AIX 1

[sarav1981]

Hi All,

I am new to UNIX. I use IBM AIX 5.3 at work. I was wondering a way to send emails accross using UNIX. I am aware of the basic syntax using mailx -s <email addresses> to send emails.

But, I would like to know if there is a way to control the recipients using TO, CC and BCC statements in the UNIX mail syntax. Also, I would like to send in multiple attachments with the email. How can I accomplish this?

It wud be great if anyone can help me out in this regards.

Thanks,
Sarav

 

[mrn]

You could use pine

http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/pine.html

First off read the man page as this will answer most of your questions

man mailx

You can send attachments as follows

uuencode filename filename | mailx -s "Subject" user.domain.com

If you also want Text in the mail body as well as the attachment

(cat somefile.txt ; uuencode filename filename) | mailx -s "Subject" user.domain.com

Mike

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[rzs0502]

Hi there
The BCC part was an interesting one.
Not sure if this is the best one, but here's what I've done:

echo "
~b someone@bcc.org
Hello,
Here is websm.log" > X.file && uuencode websm.log websm.log >> X.file && cat X.file | mailx -s "X.File" someone@visible.com

&quot;If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been.&quot;