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From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: *attaching* a file to /usr/bin/mail message
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On Apr 2 at 15:47, Giorgos Keramidas launched this into the bitstream:

> 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

I'm not stuck with mail, I use it with some shell scripts....but yeah, I 
guess I could use mutt....there's an idea I hadn't previously 
considered.

Thanks!!!

Regards,
-Colin