cron job and mail attachments

[Jeff Tomaszewski]

Admin's;

I'm searching for a way to specify an email attachment at the
command line (via cron). The attachment would be an image format (gif or
jpg). Looking into this I've come across uudeview/uuenview but I'm open
for other solutions. Does anyone have a workable solution to send mail
via cron with an jpg/gif attachment?

thanks

-Jeff

[William Rhee]

Hi Jeff,

Just yesterday I saw something at freshmeat.net which might make things
easier for you:

---snip---
name: BIABAM 0.9.1
posted on: Nov 27th 2000, 05:05 EST
license: GPL
category: Console/eMail

homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/biabam/homepage/
download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/biabam/download/

description:
Biabam Is A Bash Attachment Mailer. In other words, BIABAM is a tool
that is used for mailing attachments from the commandline. It is
similar to using Mutt to send attachments on the commandline, but
without the overhead of a complete email client.

changes:
This release includes various bugfixes, and some cosmetic changes.
---snip---

Good luck,
--Will

[Mark Montague]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, William Rhee wrote:

> Just yesterday I saw something at freshmeat.net which might make things
> easier for you:

[...]

> description:
> Biabam Is A Bash Attachment Mailer. In other words, BIABAM is a tool

> that is used for mailing attachments from the commandline. [...]

> >
> > I'm searching for a way to specify an email attachment at the
> > command line (via cron). The attachment would be an image format (gif or
> > jpg). Looking into this I've come across uudeview/uuenview but I'm open
> > for other solutions. Does anyone have a workable solution to send mail
> > via cron with an jpg/gif attachment?

Hi, Jeff,

Just to follow up to Will's answer:

Another possible solution is the metamail package. Metamail is already
installed on ITD's Login Servers. If you want to look at it separately
from everything else that's installed, look in the /usr/um/mm directory.

You'd want to read the man pages for the following programs:
mailsend mailto mimencode
mailsend is probably the program you want, though.

I haven't looked at Biabam, but it may be easier to use than metamail,
so you might want to look at it too.

Hope this helps.

Mark Montague
LS&A Information Technology
mark...@umich.edu

[Mark Montague]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Mark Montague wrote:

> You'd want to read the man pages for the following programs:
> mailsend mailto mimencode
> mailsend is probably the program you want, though.

Sorry, that should be _metasend_, not _mailsend_.