Sending attachments with mail utility

[Andrew Kaplan]

Hi there --

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

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

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)

[Maaz]

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

[Wouter Jagers]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Andrew Kaplan]

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.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

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

http://www.hpux.ws/mailfile2

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