Can you send e-mail attachment using mailx

[Jonathan Welbon]

From a script want to send emails with attachments out over the internet. Can the mailx utility do this. Is it possible to use the Cc and Bcc with mailx??

[Bart Beeren]

For sending for example text file as attachment and that it can be opened by Windows do the following:

ux2dos YourDocument|uuencode YourDocument.txt|mailx -m -s "Here is your text document" email@domain.com

(usage of cc and bcc I don't know)

BB

[Pete Randall]

Jonathon,

This is just a sample of the hits I came up with by doing a boolean search of the forums on +mailx +attachment:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x99da35067c18d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Adding cc and/or bcc might prove just as fruitful.

Good luck,
Pete

[Pete Randall]

Actually, Princess Paula's response in my previously identified thread addresses the Cc and Bcc issue, as well.

Pete

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Just do a search on the forum for the solution you are looking for and you'll have the solution in no time at all.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Jonathan Welbon]

Thank You very much Bart. You have opened a door I could biegin to open......but.....

All of the emails are empty. I want to send attachment but I also want some information in the email itself.

Attached is my script I am testing....

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hello,
uuencode filename filename | | sendmail emailid. or mailx mailx mailid

ex:

uuencode /etc/passwd passwd.hostname | sendmail user@domain

-USA..

[Christophe MAILHE]

If you want to send the file as attachement and not as part of the email, you need to use MIME.

I have attached a sample script I use to send text file as attachment.

Just replace "yourservername" by the hostname of your server and "yourcompany.com" by your domain name.

Chris.

[Dave La Mar]

Sorry you do not seem to have the answer you wish.
As I read this, you wish to send an email with an attachment and a message in the body.
If so, this should do it -

mailx -m -s "Some Title" someone@somewhere.com << EOF
`ux2dos some.fil | uuencode somefile.txt`

Type some message here for the body.

EOF


Best of Luck,
dl

[A. Clay Stephenson]

One of the easist tolls is elm from the command line especially if you are sendiing multiple attachments and text.

Within the body of your email add this:

------------------------------------

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.

----------------------------------------



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.

[Ronald Cogen]

Hi,

/usr/bin/mailx -s "$LOCALHOST ...title ..." receiver@xxx.xx < /dir/file.dat

Make sure that your /etc/sendmail.cf has the appropriate parameters.

Regards,
Ron

[Chua Wen Ching]

I think you just type:
mailx abc@hotmail.com < file.txt.

You can enter whatever email and file you want. :D

Cc and Bc i never try before.

From,
Chua Wen Ching :D

[Steven E. Protter]

Here is a sendmail script that can do it.

I'm hoping you are flexible on which mail utility to use. sendmail handles attachments better.

I got this straight out of an hp forum but could not find the post.