Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 17:58:38 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Victor M <vit@gus.orgus.ru> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: appended mail Message-ID: <20000129175838.A10697@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000129211048.11185F-100000@gus.orgus.ru> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000129211048.11185F-100000@gus.orgus.ru>
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Victor M wrote: > I can send message to the peer by putting the command in my program: > > cat some_message_file.txt | mail my_peer > > But this message will be sent in the body of the mail, and I want it to be > sent as appended file, not in the body. It can be useful if you send not > readable files, e.g. graphical images. try $ uuencode some_message_file.txt some_message_file.txt | mail my_peer this isn't ideal -- it would be better do it as a MIME attachment, but there are no programs to do that in the FreeBSD base system. To send MIME mail you could use Mutt (yes, it can be used non-interactively), mpack, or write a short perl script using one of the MIME modules. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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