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Mail A File As An Attachment From The UNIX Prompt

08.21.2005

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uuencode file.txt file.txt | mail email@address.com

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Snippets Manager replied on Fri, 2007/04/13 - 11:44am

If you have mutt installed, you can send mail as follows:


 mutt -s "This a subject"  \
      -a Attached_File.txt \
      recipient@email.com  < Email_Body.txt

With mutt, you can add many attachments (not sure if there is a limit) and you don't have to mess with uuencode and mailx. Attachments are attached as one would expect. This functionality can be wrapped easily in a script that so that you can make use of environment/script variables for the arguments.

Snippets Manager replied on Mon, 2012/05/07 - 2:14pm

If you prefer to use MIME, mime-construct can be used:


mime-construct \
  --to       "person@example.com" \
  --subject  "Your computer" \
  --string   "Your computer is on fire" \
             --type text/plain --file-attach extinguishing_howto.txt