From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 11:27:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from comp04.prc.uic.edu (comp04.prc.uic.edu [128.248.230.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55F3F37B406 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@comp04.prc.uic.edu) Received: (qmail 76135 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Jul 2001 18:27:06 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:27:06 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: m Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Attach in mail? Message-ID: <20010723132706.A74870@comp04.prc.uic.edu> Reply-To: iceberg@pobox.com References: <002301c113a1$db8ce170$0c00000a@webmaster> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <002301c113a1$db8ce170$0c00000a@webmaster>; from kamidesu@hotpop.com on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 01:59:16PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > How do I attach a file using mail? When most people say 'attachment' referring to mail these days, they mean using MIME to split a message into parts and encoding those parts which use 8-bit characters using the Base64 encoding. The mail(1) program doesn't do that sort of thing. (You can read such attachments with mail(1), using an extension package like metamail.) You can embed uuencoded files into messages: uuencode foo.wav foo.wav | mail whomever@wherever Most mail clients understand that, too, at least in a limited way. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message