Send emails with attachments from command line

[Igor Robul]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:04:46PM +0000, Ashley Moran wrote:
> 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.
This is because it depends on XPM library. I have removed it manually
and metamail works fine on my X11-less server :-)
I use both mutt and metamail because metamail can "embed" content, while
mutt does "simple" attachment.