Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:51:41 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Justin Ashworth <justin@structured.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: command-line mailers that support MIME Message-ID: <9607291651.AA21743@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607291642.JAA14877@chaos.structured.net> References: <199607291642.JAA14877@chaos.structured.net>
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<<On Mon, 29 Jul 1996 09:41:29 -0700, Justin Ashworth <justin@structured.net> said:
> Are there any command-line mailers that support MIME? What I'd like to do
> is zip up a customer's log files and send the zip to them monthly. I'd like
> for it to come through as an attachment rather than garbage in the message body.
Certainly. Automated mail applications should already be calling
sendmail directly, and it's a simple matter of putting the correct
headers in and using the correct encoding. In fact, if you have the
`mpack' program (available in ports), you can just use that directly:
mpack version 1.5
usage: mpack [-s subj] [-d file] [-m maxsize] [-c content-type] file address...
mpack [-s subj] [-d file] [-m maxsize] [-c content-type] -o file file
mpack [-s subj] [-d file] [-m maxsize] [-c content-type] -n groups file
Unfortunately, it generates an extraneous outside `multipart/mixed'
element, rather than sending the file directly; this is so that it can
include a paragraph of explanatory text.
-GAWollman
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