topic Re: Attaching Emails and include Text in Operating System - HP-UX

Attaching Emails and include Text

Joe Milici — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:15:08 GMT

I have reviewed the responses regarding attaching a file but how can I add a message in the body as well?

Re: Attaching Emails and include Text

Rodney Hills — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:27:44 GMT

Since you didn't specify the email program you are using, I'll assume mailx.

cat body | mailx -s "subj line" joe@company.com

HTH

-- Rod Hills

Re: Attaching Emails and include Text

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:30:50 GMT

Attaching a good script.

You will need to tweak it.

SEP

Re: Attaching Emails and include Text

Joe Milici — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 17:35:01 GMT

Rodney, Where does the attachment come into play with your syntax?

Re: Attaching Emails and include Text

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:30:37 GMT

One of the easist tools to use is elm from the command line especially if you are sendiing multiple attachments and text.

Within the body of your email add this:

------------------------------------

This is my text. How are you?

[include /tmp/myattach application/octet-stream base64]

This is some more text in the middle.

[include /tmp/myexcel.xls application/ms-excel base64]

This is a closing message in the email.

----------------------------------------

That will attach /tmp/myattach and /tmp/myexcel.xls. You can include multiple attachments using this method.

Then to use it from a script:
elm -s "My Subject" dumbo@mailserver.com < myletter

Where myletter contains the attachment include statement as well as your message text. It is also necessary that you have a .elm directory
under the senders home directory because unlike the interactive version of elm the command-line version will not create a .elm directory automatically