Sending mail with attachments from a shell script

[Spiros Denaxas]

Ive used "mailx -s "foo" email at maaddress < attachment" several times and it
works pretty good. Not sure how it works on binary files, but I dont think
it wil break.

On 6/8/06, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:53:54PM +0000, the hatter wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, David Cantrell wrote:
> > > mutt -a isn't appropriate.  Nor is perl.
> > I'm curious as to mhy mutt isn't an appropriate tool - is it some sort
> of
> > allergy to mutt (try antihistamines) or is pine -attach(list) ruled out
> > for some similar reason.
>
> I ruled out mutt because the script is running from a cronjob, and there
> are things in my .muttrc which aren't available to cron jobs, and so
> mutt still works but whinges to STDERR.  I'd not considered pine.  I try
> not to usually.
>
> I ended up using nail, which is fabulous.
>
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