Email file in MIME format via script

[David Greenberg_1]

I want to have a script send a file to a M$ Exchange mail server in MIME format. (My users cant deal with things like running uudecode on their side.) I know I can do this interactivly in elm, but I am looking for a way to have a script do it. There must be some way to do this.....

TIA - David

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

for i in `echo filename1 filename2 filename3 ...`
do
uuencode $i $i.txt
done|mailx -m -s "test" username@whereever.com


and it shows up on their mail as an attachment in TEXT format.


live free or die
harry

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi David:

You can also use elm in a non-interactive mode to send attachments.

Simply include the following syntax in your mail textfile (e.g) my_message

-----------------
This is some sample text.
[include myfile1 application/octet-stream]

This is some more stuff.

[include myfile2 application/octet-stream]

That's all folks
------------------

Then, elm -s "Sample Subject" someuser@xxx.com < my_message

The only requirement is that you must first create a .elm directory in the sender's home directory; the command-line version will not automatically create the .elm directory unlike the interactive version of elm. The above will attach myfile1 and myfile2.

[David Greenberg_1]

Thank you gents! I am just starting to try both of your suggestions, but I can see that I have two ways to solve my problem -- I just have to decide which one will work better at my site. That's the kind of problem I like! Thanks again.

[benoit Bruckert]

Hello,
On my side, I don't use elm but a little product call "nail",
you can configure it to specify the kind of encoding with the extension of the filename.
you can download it at
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu
just a command line to send files in attachments....

[Rick Beck]

An earlier reply mentioned using uuencode which will show up txt attachment as long as you suppress the normal mail mime headers (I believe that's the -m option on mail.

If you really need to use a MIME format instead of uuencode, you can get mpack from HPUX porting archive. I can't remember the exact URL but it is referenced in a previous reply.

[Chris Vail]

We do this with mutt (from http://www.mutt.org). Its advantage is that you can attach binaries as well as text files. The command: 'date|mutt -a somefile -h Subject ADDDRESS' attaches the file and mails it very nicely. We email instead of printing--which makes our security people happy.


Chris