Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:45:15 +0300 From: Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Send emails with attachments from command line Message-ID: <20051209094515.GB878@sysadm.stc> In-Reply-To: <200512081504.46197.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> References: <200512081216.34417.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net> <20051208133543.GA91095@sysadm.stc> <200512081504.46197.ashley.moran@codeweavers.net>
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:04:46PM +0000, Ashley Moran wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 13:35, Igor Robul wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:16:34PM +0000, Ashley Moran wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to send emails with attachments from the command > > > line? I've replaced sendmail with ssmtp and I can send plain messages > > > with mail, but I don't know how to go about preparing MIME encoded > > > emails. Any pointers? > > > > Look at > > mail/metamail > > > > also "mutt" can send mail with attachments in batch mode. > > > Thanks > > Metamail needs X11 which I don't want on the server, so I've gone with mutt. This is because it depends on XPM library. I have removed it manually and metamail works fine on my X11-less server :-) I use both mutt and metamail because metamail can "embed" content, while mutt does "simple" attachment.
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