Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 15:47:55 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *attaching* a file to /usr/bin/mail message Message-ID: <20050402124754.GB6829@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20050402140601.D9329@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050402140601.D9329@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
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On 2005-04-02 14:08, "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> wrote: > Does anyone happen to know how you would *attach* *not readin the > contents of, but actually *attach*) a file using /usr/bin/mail? Not very easily, is one answer. You can probably get away with uuencode output filtered to the standard input of mail(1), but that's not really a "MIME attachment". > On my system mail has no "-a" (attach) flag, and some Googling told me > mailx might solve the problem, but /usr/bin/mailx just invokes mail.... Other mail user agents do have a -a flag though. At least mail/mutt does and I've used it successfully in the past. If you are not stuck with mail(1) only, you can always use mutt for this. mutt -a /path/to/file recipient.address@example.net
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