attach files in sendmail

[Carme Torca]

Hi,

I want to attach one file in one mail using sendmail. Does anyone could I do this??

Thanks very much!!,
Carmen.

[Peter Godron]

Carmen,
this works on our current platform.
Perhaps not the shortest method, but the code is easy to understand, even for me!
Pete

[Ralph Grothe]

It's not your sendmail MTA that needs special configuration.
You rather need a MUA that's capable of creating appropriate MIME multipart headers and encoding your attachments properly (usually Base64).
You can do it either the die-hard way like Peter showed you by forming your own headers and data.
Easier yet, install a MUA like mutt
http://www.mutt.org/
or pine
http://www.washington.edu/pine/

If you are into Perl you could also use the MIME::Lite module

http://search.cpan.org/~yves/MIME-Lite-3.01/lib/MIME/Lite.pm

For mor involved stuff (like parsing etc.) you could use MIME::Tools

http://search.cpan.org/~dskoll/MIME-tools-5.416/lib/MIME/Tools.pm

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Carmen,

Here are several threads which deal with sendmail and attachments:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=33794
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=482848
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=94905
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=188903

Hopefully one of those should point you in the right direction. If not, use the search function at the top of the page and search on "sendmail attachment".


Pete