Attaching Emails and include Text

[Joe Milici]

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

[Rodney Hills]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

Attaching a good script.

You will need to tweak it.

SEP

[Joe Milici]

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

[A. Clay Stephenson]

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:

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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.

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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