Scripting problem

[Baho Utot]

On 10/08/17 02:14, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On October 8, 2017 at 6:08:51 AM +0000 Manish Jain 
> <bourne.identity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I do not use mutt (one of the most unfriendly Unix apps) so I cannot
>> comment on what is the problem here. But I would to suggest one thing to
>> you for CLI mail : use the port/pkg smtp-cli
>>
>> Here is a working sample for mail with attachment (bundled into the bash
>> shell array att) :
>>
>> smtp-cli \
>>     --ipv4 \
>>     --auth \
>>     --server="$SMTP" \
>>     --port=$PORT \
>>     --user="$fromaddr" \
>>     --pass="$password" \
>>     --from="$fromname <$fromaddr>" \
>>     --to="$sendto" \
>>     --subject="$subject" \
>>     "${att[@]}"
>>
>> If this solves your problem, good luck  : - )
>>
> I guess I should have pointed out that I'm sending mail on localhost, so 
> there's no auth involved. I'm using mutt because mailx doesn't appear to 
> have the ability to attach files.
> 
> I solved the problem by using a one word subject. It's weird that Mutt 
> is somehow parsing the words in the subject and using them as recipients.
> 

In bourne shell quoting is your friend.  Have a look at variable expansion.