topic Sending attachments with mail utility in Operating System - Linux

Sending attachments with mail utility

Andrew Kaplan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:55:36 GMT

Hi there --

Is it possible to send attachments via the mail utility? If so, what syntax do I need to use? Thanks.

Re: Sending attachments with mail utility

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:03:20 GMT

Probably with:

uuenconde filename filename | mail -s "subject" user@domain

Where filename is the name of the file you want to attach (yes, it's specified twice)

Re: Sending attachments with mail utility

Maaz — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:04:54 GMT

I think you can send attachments via mail utility as

# mail -s "Your Subject" -a file1_to_be_attached -a file2_to_be_attached user@domain <~

Regards
Maaz

Re: Sending attachments with mail utility

Wouter Jagers — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:00:33 GMT

Only a small correction to Maaz' post: the command to use with this syntax would be mutt instead of mail:

# mutt -s "Your Subject" -a file1_to_be_attached -a file2_to_be_attached user@domain

..the easy way to send attachments in linux, should you have mutt installed.

Cheers,
Wout

Re: Sending attachments with mail utility

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:39:02 GMT

Hi Andrew:

See Dave La Mar's attachment in this post for a nice summary guide:

http://itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1055549

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Sending attachments with mail utility

Andrew Kaplan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:29:16 GMT

Hi there --

Thanks for the help. I went ahead with the uuencode method, and it works great.

The other approaches mentioned also look good, and I'll keep them in mind.

Re: Sending attachments with mail utility

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:26:49 GMT

Shalom,

Late but a script with some enhanced abilities, using uuencode.

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

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