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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: river <river@theriver.nu>
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Subject: Re: Automailing a file fron cron
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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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