How to send attached files on sendmail with mail tool?

[Nelis Lamprecht]

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 08:07, Murray Taylor wrote:

> This works with winblows  - I use it in production here
> 
> cat file | uuencode tgt_filname | mail -s "subject" test at example.com
>       ^                 ^
>       |                 +--- attachment FILENAME for the target host to
> use
>       +--- attachment CONTENT from the source host
> 

May I suggest an alternative - /usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-Sender

Install this perl module and then you can easily write a simple script
to handle your attachments. Something like the following:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use Mail::Sender;
 
$to      = $ARGV [0];
$replyto = "someone\@domain.com";
$subject = $ARGV [1];
$file    = $ARGV [2];
$mesg    = $ARGV [3];
$from    = "someone\@domain.com";
 
if (! $file )
{
        PrintUsage();
        die "\n";
}
 
else
{
 
$sender = new Mail::Sender
 {smtp => 'your.smtp.server.ip', from => $from};
 
$sender->MailFile({ to      => $to,
                    replyto => $replyto,
                    subject => $subject,
                    msg     => $mesg,
                    file    => $file});
 
print "The file $file has been sent to $to\n";
};
 
sub PrintUsage
{
        print "Usage: mailfile.pl <To> <Subject> <File> <Message>";

};

Not tested but should work, just alter to suit your needs.

Regards,
-- 
Nelis Lamprecht
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