Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:54:18 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: river <river@theriver.nu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automailing a file fron cron Message-ID: <19990923195418.A27502@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <21DC5E98AE1FD311B1290020AFDB6C6E6419@cx288885-b.okcs1.ok.home.com> References: <21DC5E98AE1FD311B1290020AFDB6C6E6419@cx288885-b.okcs1.ok.home.com>
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river wrote:
> I have been able to automail the contents of a file with the following
> command line:
>
> mail -s 'TESTMAIL' user@mydomain.com < /tmp/file.to.send
>
> but of course this wont work with a tarball, I need to be able
> to "attach" the file rather than its contents...
>
> I checked the man page for mail and it doesnt specify any swtich
> for attaching a file.....is there a way to do this ?
Quite a few ways... Sheldon's will work on a plain FreeBSD system, but
some mail clients don't automatically decode uuencoded data as they do
MIME (hardly a tragedy though, just a minor inconvenience). If you have
Mutt installed you might use something like this:
$ mutt -s 'TESTMAIL' -a /tmp/file.to.send user@mydomain.com </dev/null
If you don't have Mutt, use one of the other methods, but this is what
I used last time I had to do this. (You can probably do this with other
mail clients, too.)
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