[rhn-users] What is the simplest way to use command line (mailorsendmail) with an attachment?

[Bill Watson]

I tried:
uuencode pdf/300.pdf page300.pdf|mailx -s "This is the subject for page 300"
bill at magicdigits.com
 
and life is good! A couple of hiccups in that the 2nd parameter on uuencode
(name of file) will add .dat if you do not specify the extension. WinXP
doesn't deal with that so well. Also having the file to attach actually
exist (where you say it does) helps.
 
Thanks for your help, this is the good stuff that manuals often forget to
cover!
Bill Watson
bill at magicdigits.com

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Howard, Chris
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:22 PM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] What is the simplest way to use command line
(mailorsendmail) with an attachment?


One way to do it:
 
uuencode filename.txt  filename.txt | mailx -s"here is that file"
otherguy at mail.address
 
 
Most email clients will show filename.txt as an attachment.
 
Chris
 

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]On
Behalf Of Bill Watson
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:07 PM
To: 'Red Hat Network Users List'
Subject: [rhn-users] What is the simplest way to use command line (mail
orsendmail) with an attachment?


I have read the sendmail documents that I could find and can only conclude
that I am clueless or that attachments on emails are beyond diffilcult.
 
Is there a tool laying around that can properly package an email attachment
onto an email and send it via a command line protocol?
 
Thanks in advance!
Bill Watson
bill at magicdigits.com
 

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