topic Re: send mime attachments from command-line? in Operating System - HP-UX

send mime attachments from command-line?

Trever Furnish — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:31:47 GMT

Anyone have a straightforward solution for attaching and sending multimedia files (such as PDFs) from the command line via email (non-interactively)?

HPUX includes elm and a (barebones) version of metamail, but not the mailto utility from metamail.

Elm doesn't seem to support attaching files to a message via the command-line unless you run it interactively.

Installed pine, works fine interactively, but doesn't seem to allow sending a message non-interactively.

Installed mutt, seems to work, but the attachments are corrupt.

Am I missing something? This shouldn't be this difficult. What do you use? Manually compiled metamail with mailto?

Suggestions?

Re: send mime attachments from command-line?

Pete Randall — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:36:50 GMT

Trever,

I think this thread may help:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd6a2afe90f1cd71190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Pete

Re: send mime attachments from command-line?

Chris Vail — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:39:27 GMT

This one is pretty easy. Use the default MUA mailx, and uuencode. The command is: uuencode /path/file /path/file|mailx -s "Subject" me@myaddy.com

This will attach your file and mail it. We use both mutt and mailx as our MUA, and both work pretty well.

Chris

Re: send mime attachments from command-line?

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:33:28 GMT

use uuencode..

uuencode filetobattached filename | sendmail emailid.

Suppose you want attach a pdf file from /home/dir to abc@xyz.com

uuencode /home/dir/filename.pdf filename.pdf | sendmail abc@xyz.com

-USA..

Re: send mime attachments from command-line?

Rita C Workman — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:35:28 GMT

There are a few ways this can be done....

Here's a thread that my give you enough options to try:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x41950559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Rgrds,
Rita

Re: send mime attachments from command-line?

Trever Furnish — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 18:54:33 GMT

Thanks, all!

Ten points to Pete for being the first to link to something that mentioned [include] for elm. Rita, yours would have gotten me there too, but Pete beat ya to it. But your link included mpack, another option - thanks!

For those suggesting uuencode, thanks, but I should have been more specific. Uuencoding is not quite enough for this app because only a small subset of clients will still seamlessly decode it.