PHWinfo - Afficher un message - How to type a message and also have an attachment with "mail"

20/08/2006, 14h57

yusuf wrote:
> Currently, I send the contents of a file by mail by typing:
>
> mail someone@somewhere.com < some.file
>
> But I can't type my own message using the above command to send with
> the file. I checked the command line options for mail and there doesn't
> seem to be an attachment parameter. Does anyone know how I can do this
> through the command line?

You have to either built whole MIME message (with all boundaries and
everything) and pipe it to /usr/bin/mail (or directly
to /usr/sbin/sendmail -- after all, when you built it all yourself there is
not much mail can do for you). The other way would be to use some other
mail replacement -- nail is 100% replacement of mailx and it can do (among
other things) attachments.

MatÄ›j

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20/08/2006, 14h57	#4
Matej Cepl Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: How to type a message and also have an attachment with "mail" yusuf wrote: > Currently, I send the contents of a file by mail by typing: > > mail someone@somewhere.com < some.file > > But I can't type my own message using the above command to send with > the file. I checked the command line options for mail and there doesn't > seem to be an attachment parameter. Does anyone know how I can do this > through the command line? You have to either built whole MIME message (with all boundaries and everything) and pipe it to /usr/bin/mail (or directly to /usr/sbin/sendmail -- after all, when you built it all yourself there is not much mail can do for you). The other way would be to use some other mail replacement -- nail is 100% replacement of mailx and it can do (among other things) attachments. MatÄ›j -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: ceplma@jabber.cz 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic Republic of X is probably the last place in the world you'd want to live. -- Paul Graham discussing (not only) Nigerian spam (http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html)