Send a local file via email

{ echo -e "$body"; uuencode "$outfile" "$outfile"; } | mail -s "$subject" "$destaddr" ;

on this way we can define the body too

By: glaudiston

2009-12-10 18:08:59

echo mail uuencode cat mail

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Send a local file via email

Send it the easy way, with MIME and everything handled for you by an app that knows best.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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mutt your@email_address.com -s "Message Subject Here" -a attachment.jpg </dev/null

linuxrawkstar · 2009-12-10 22:49:38 6
Send a local file via email

Another way of sending an attachment. -s : subject file : file to be sent
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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mpack -s "Backup: $file" "$file" email@id.com

sentinel · 2009-12-11 04:03:06 4
Send a local file via email

This just reads in a local file and sends it via email. Works with text or binary. *Requires* local mail server.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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cat filename | mail -s "Email subject" user@example.com

topher1kenobe · 2009-09-20 01:38:23 4
Send a local file via email

if "mail -a" fail, try "mutt -a" or "nail -a"
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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echo "see attached file" | mail -a filename -s "subject" email@address

gnpf · 2009-09-21 11:58:49 4
Send a local file via email

uuencode the file to appear as an attachment
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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cat filename | uuencode filename | mail -s "Email subject" user@example.com

amaymon · 2009-09-21 04:13:50 9

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This is SO much easier to do with mutt using its command line arguments.

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