sending attachment with mail command

[Colin van Niekerk]

Mutt will pass the mail to the local MTA for delivery, that has configs in it but generally the defaults are about to relay mail from localhost via MX resolution.

Can you send mail from this box using any other app (maybe mail? without attachments.)
What linux flavour are you running?

Is your DNS working?
Maybe the MTA is not running?

Please execute the following command and send us the output:

uname -a
host www.mimecast.com
netstat -nltp
tail -50 /var/log/messages
tail -50 /var/log/maillog

Please also send us the command you ran when you tested mutt

cheers
Colin

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Sent: 14 May 2009 08:26 AM
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Subject: RE: sending attachment with mail command

HI

Just tried using but I not getting mails. Does this have any configuration file in which we need to add mail relay server entry.?


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Rgds
Nitin
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From: Nitin Gizare (WT01 - Product Engineering Services)
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:49 AM
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Subject: RE: sending attachment with mail command

Thanks million.


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Rgds
Nitin
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From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Colin van Niekerk
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:45 AM
To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: sending attachment with mail command

Hi Nitin,

Must you use the mail command or can you just any command, mutt may be a better option when dealing with attachments (its sorts out the MIME types for you so you don't need to add extra stuff to your script in order to ensure that the attachment is going to be readable on the other side - more applicable when sending binary attachments through older systems)

Unless it is not installed, you can use mutt as follows in scripts to send a mail with an attachment:

echo "message body goes here" |mutt -s "subject goes here" -a filename_with_full_path_goes_here email at address.goes.here

if you need it to go to many addresses (not limited to 3, this is an example only), use:
echo "message body goes here" |mutt -s "subject goes here" -a filename_with_full_path_goes_here email1 at address.goes.here,email2 at address.goes.here,email3 at address.goes.here

if you need to attach multiple files, just add another -a argument:
echo "message body goes here" |mutt -s "subject goes here" -a filename1_with_full_path_goes_here -a filename2_with_full_path_goes_here -a filename3_with_full_path_goes_here email at address.goes.here

Cheers,
Colin

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Sent: 14 May 2009 04:39 AM
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Subject: sending attachment with mail command

HI

I have requirement of sending server logs are attachment using mail command.
Is this possible? if not can some body suggest any other method.


Rgds
Nitin

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