send attachment to mail
Ragothaman
How to attach attachments to mail in command line? current mail
command syntax does not allows it.
Your help will be highly appreciated.
to...@aplawrence.com
: I am using mmdf and sending mails through it.
: How to attach attachments to mail in command line? current mail
: command syntax does not allows it.
From http://www.pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec6.html#mailxmutt
Using mail from the command line: if you want to send true attachments
(that show up in graphical mail clients as attachments), you need
something like "mutt" (available from Skunkware).
If it's just arbitrary text or a file you want to send, and don't care
about it looking like a real attachment, you can use ordinary mail and do
mailx -s "This is it" someone@someplace < somefile
or
echo "text more text" | mailx somebody somebodyelse fr...@fred.com
You can use uuencode to send a binary file the same way, and some mail
clients may even display that as they would a "real" attachment.
However: that's NOT an attachment. Every time somebody asks this question
on the newsgroup, someone is sure to insist that it is, but a simple
visual examination of actual messages should show them their error.
The confusion is, of course, that some mail clients will act as though
the uuencoded text were a proper attachment. That's fine if the people
you are sending to use one of those clients, but if there is any chance
they do not, be safe: use Mutt.
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uuencode file file | mail som...@on.the.net
"Ragothaman" <rago...@yahoo.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:5bc6392c.03060...@posting.google.com...
to...@aplawrence.com
: try that :
: uuencode file file | mail som...@on.the.net
(sigh).
No. For the 18th gazillion time, that's not an attachment.
http://www.pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec6.html#mailxmutt
MSA
outlook show u these files like standard atached files
<to...@aplawrence.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:bbq7bd$mdr$3...@pcls4.std.com...
Jean-Pierre Radley
| MSA <m.sain...@y-nover.com> wrote:
| : try that :
| : uuencode file file | mail som...@on.the.net
|
| (sigh).
|
| No. For the 18th gazillion time, that's not an attachment.
|
| http://www.pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec6.html#mailxmutt
Man, you should see the vioent thread on this yesterday in the filePro
mailing list...
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Jean-Pierre Radley
| <to...@aplawrence.com> a écrit dans le message de
| news:bbq7bd$mdr$3...@pcls4.std.com...
| > MSA <m.sain...@y-nover.com> wrote:
| > : try that :
| > : uuencode file file | mail som...@on.the.net
| >
| > (sigh).
| >
| > No. For the 18th gazillion time, that's not an attachment.
| >
| > http://www.pcunix.com/SCOFAQ/scotec6.html#mailxmutt
|
| that's not a REAL attachment but that was good for my use
| outlook show u these files like standard atached files
Many people refuse to use crap like Outhouse Express...
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JP
Robert Kovacic
Do a google search for mpack. I believe it will do what you require and
it compiles fine under SCO Openserver 5.0.6.
Regards, Robert Kovacic.
Jean-Pierre Radley
What is mpack, and why prefer it to using mutt?
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JP
Bill Vermillion
========================================
MPACK(1) MPACK(1)
NAME
mpack - pack a file in MIME format
SYNOPSIS
mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c con-
tent-type ] file address ...
mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c con-
tent-type ] -o outputfile file
mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c con-
tent-type ] -n newsgroups file
DESCRIPTION
The mpack program encodes the the named file in one or more MIME mes-
sages. The resulting messages are mailed to one or more recipients,
written to a named file or set of files, or posted to a set of news-
groups.
OPTIONS
[deletia - wjv]
========================================
That's mpack, but even though I have it here I also prefer mutt.
Bill
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Ragothaman
But it needs ncurses library files. The link given in the above
mails is outdated in sco's site. Hence give me fresh links for
downloading this ncurses library
Thanks
to...@aplawrence.com
: Thanks for informing about mutt. I have installed mutt from skunkware.
: But it needs ncurses library files. The link given in the above
: mails is outdated in sco's site. Hence give me fresh links for
: downloading this ncurses library
Oh, that's that stupid out of date Skunkware mutt. I forgot about that.
JP has source at ftp://ftp.jpr.com and I have a binary he compiled from
that at ftp://aplawtence.com/pub/mutt_osr5.tar.Z
to...@aplawrence.com
: Ragothaman <rago...@yahoo.com> wrote:
: : Thanks for informing about mutt. I have installed mutt from skunkware.
: : But it needs ncurses library files. The link given in the above
: : mails is outdated in sco's site. Hence give me fresh links for
: : downloading this ncurses library
: Oh, that's that stupid out of date Skunkware mutt. I forgot about that.
: JP has source at ftp://ftp.jpr.com and I have a binary he compiled from
: that at ftp://aplawtence.com/pub/mutt_osr5.tar.Z
aargh!
ftp://aplawrence.com/pub/mutt_osr5.tar.Z
Jean-Pierre Radley
It's in the graphics library at Skunkware, but it's a silly thing, since
whoever compiled mutt for Skunkware should never have used ncurses; SCO's
native curses libaray is perfectly adequate.
Try my compilation, Mutt.OSR5.tar.bz2, in the /pub directory of
ftp.jpr.com.
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JP
to...@aplawrence.com
: Ragothaman typed (on Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:47:38AM -0700):
: | Thanks for informing about mutt. I have installed mutt from skunkware.
: | But it needs ncurses library files. The link given in the above
: | mails is outdated in sco's site. Hence give me fresh links for
: | downloading this ncurses library
: It's in the graphics library at Skunkware, but it's a silly thing, since
: whoever compiled mutt for Skunkware should never have used ncurses; SCO's
: native curses libaray is perfectly adequate.
And that version is the one I had other troubles with too.
: Try my compilation, Mutt.OSR5.tar.bz2, in the /pub directory of
: ftp.jpr.com.
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Robert Kovacic
Another post has answered what mpack is.
I prefer it over mutt because it provides the facility to do one single
job, mime attachments. I believe in the unix philosophy of chaining
simple filter commands and I thought the original poster was asking for
that and not a fully fledged mail client that happened to also meet his
needs.
Regards, Robert Kovacic
Ragothaman
Yes!
I need the utility that can get the following as its arguments and
send the mail in a snap:
From address, sender's name, attachment files, body text, email
address.
I have downloaded and installed mpack and found that it satisfies my
requirement.
My heartful thanks to all who have guided throughout to find the right
utility.
Ragothaman
Thomas Dickey
> Ragothaman typed (on Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:47:38AM -0700):
> | Thanks for informing about mutt. I have installed mutt from skunkware.
> | But it needs ncurses library files. The link given in the above
> | mails is outdated in sco's site. Hence give me fresh links for
> | downloading this ncurses library
> It's in the graphics library at Skunkware, but it's a silly thing, since
> whoever compiled mutt for Skunkware should never have used ncurses; SCO's
> native curses libaray is perfectly adequate.
"adequate" is correct; however people using mutt tend to want to be able
to resize their window, and use default colors. But that's old stuff
(3-4 years). Current mutt users want UTF-8 support (but none of the
packages appear to support that).
Does SCO's curses do that yet?
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