Send emails with attachments from command line

[Murray Taylor]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> freebsd at henriklidstrom.se
> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 2:23 AM
> To: ashley.moran at codeweavers.net
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: SV: Send emails with attachments from command line
> 
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] För Ashley Moran
> > Skickat: den 8 december 2005 16:05
> > Till: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Ämne: Re: Send emails with attachments from command line
> >
> > On Thursday 08 December 2005 13:35, Igor Robul wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:16:34PM +0000, Ashley Moran wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know how to send emails with attachments 
> from the > >
> > command line? I've replaced sendmail with ssmtp and I can send plain
> > > > messages with mail, but I don't know how to go about preparing
> > MIME > > encoded emails.  Any pointers?
> > >
> > > Look at
> > > mail/metamail
> > >
> > > also "mutt" can send mail with attachments in batch mode.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Metamail needs X11 which I don't want on the server, so 
> I've gone with mutt.
> 
> I sometimes use:
> #uuencode filetosend.ext filetosend.ext | mail -s "File" 
> user at domain.tld
> 
> But not sure if thats correct.
> 
> /Henrik
> 

I send all sorts of reports automagically with

cat filename | uuencode filename | mail -s filename user at example.com

where filename can be a shell variable etc
FWIW some of the reports are perl generated Excel spreadsheets and they
travel just fine to the M$ challenged.

mjt
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