SV: Send emails with attachments from command line

freebsd at henriklidstrom.se freebsd at henriklidstrom.se
Thu Dec 8 07:23:24 PST 2005


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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] För Ashley Moran
> Skickat: den 8 december 2005 16:05
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> 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




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