Emailing 100+ PDFs, one at a time, to a given address

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Fri May 15 03:24:04 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Kelly Jones
<kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to email 100s of PDFs, 1 per email, to a given address.
>
> What's the easiest way to do this?
>
> /usr/bin/Mail won't work, since
> PDFs are binary, so I must first BASE64 encode them.
>
> I could write a Perl script to BASE64 encode them and MIME-wrap them,
> but is there an existing tool for this?
>

If you can install mail/mutt, you can replace (for the most part)
/usr/bin/mail with /usr/local/bin/mutt and still script it.

HTH

-- 
Glen Barber


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