Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:24:30 -0500 From: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Murray Taylor <murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> Subject: Re: How to send attached files on sendmail with mail tool? Message-ID: <200407202324.30211.jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1090197528.91088.68.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com> References: <200407162036.i6GKaNt11099@www.plutao.lusodigital.net> <1090197528.91088.68.camel@wstaylorm.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com>
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On Sunday 18 July 2004 07:38 pm, Murray Taylor wrote: > > cat file | uuencode tgt_filname | mail -s "subject" test@example.com > > You can send .tgz, .tar.gz, .xls, .csv, ... files using this method.. > > Ie any file at all as the uuencode does all the necessaries to make the > file into 7bit ascii. > > subject can be derived from shell script variables if necessary. Do you have to do a uudecode on the receiving end to recover the file? I tried this - sending a pdf file from this FreeBSD system to a Windoze user that gets mail via POP - it didn't work. The filename came through, and it was listed as an attachment, but there was nothing useful in the file. Jay
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