Help troubleshooting mutt and sendmail

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Mar 16 16:24:14 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:43 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 15Mar2007 15:49, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> | On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 21:19 +0100, Ambrogio wrote:
> | > I have a strange problem and I cant understand how to solve it.
> | > I'm looking for a simple command to send a file by email.
> | > I found mutt and I checked it.
> |
> | what is the matter with:
> | mail -s "This is subject" jsmith at geo.com < file
> 
> Only works for text. Breaks on long lines or non-ASCII characters.
> Isn't a
> MIME attachment (filename lost, other info lost). Only does one file.
> Need I go on?
You can go on ans long ass you want but the single mail line above
handles the task asked for by the OP. I am not sure why it would break
on long lines of reject non-ASCII characters. 
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