file attached in e-mail 2

[sunboy]

Hi,
How can I send an e-mail with a file attached in Unix?
(with "mail" command)

Thank

Sunboy

 

[bjverzal]

You need to use the "uuencode" program. It works fine.

Bill.

 

[pcunix]

Well, you need to do more than that if you want it to really be an attachment- some MUA's will treat a uuencoded tackon as an attachment, but real attachments require more work. Freely available programs like "mutt" can generate true MIME attachments,

Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[KarveR]

and for some definitive command line jiggerypokery:

uuencode attachment.txt attachment.txt|mail -s"subject matter" recipient@place.com

have fun ***************************************
Party on, dudes!

 

[MikeLacey]

Karver,

How would you include some text in that email as well as the attachment? Mike
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[pcunix]

echo "Hi there Ed
`date`
here is a text file:
`cat /tmp/file`
Here is the uuencoded stuff:
`uuencode attachment.txt attachment.txt`
"|mail -s"subject matter"

Note: one " on first line, one on last. None in betweeen.

BUT: as I said before, this is NOT actual attachments. For real MIME attachments from the command line you can use something like Mutt.

Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[MikeLacey]

Thx Tony Mike
"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[gerudman]

Hi

You might try the following as well:
cat filename | mailx -s"subject" mail_address

George

 

[aixmurderer]

Try this script, you may have to modify a bit to suit:


#!/bin/ksh
: '
sendattch.sh : Encapsulate standard input as a MIME attachment
and mail it to the correct destination.

ARGS: 1: Delivery address
2: File to send as attachment
'
ADDR=$1
FILE=$2
INTCHG=`basename $2 .txt`

USAGE="Usage: sendattch.sh delivery_address file_name"

TEMP=/tmp/$INTCHG.att

# Tidy-up Function

function doExit {
rm -f $TEMP
exit $1
}

# Validate arguments

[[ $# -eq 2 ]] || {
echo "Invalid number of arguments: $#\n$USAGE" >&2
doExit -1
}

# Construct the message

{
echo "To: $ADDR"
echo "Subject: $INTCHG"
echo "X-Priority: 3"
echo "MIME-Version: 1.0"
echo "Content-Type: application/msword;"
echo " name=\"$INTCHG.txt\""
echo "Content-Disposition: attachment;"
echo " filename=\"$INTCHG.txt\""
echo "Content-Description: $INTCHG"
echo
cat $FILE
} > $TEMP

# Send the constructed message

/usr/sbin/sendmail $ADDR < $TEMP
doExit $?
IBM Certified Specialist - MQSeries
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX 5 pSeries System Administration

 

[gregor weertman]

aixmurderer,

Thank you for your neat and helpful script.

One vote from me.

Now I have to do some HP killing.


Regards Gregor Gregor.Weertman@mailcity.com