Re: [gentoo-user] mail command and attachment?

["Leonard - Gentoo" <gentoolist@pcnetsources.com>]

Heinz,

Outstanding.. thanks for the suggestion also..

Regards ..

Leonard
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heinz Sporn" <heinz.sporn@sporn-it.com>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mail command and attachment?


> Am Mittwoch, den 23.11.2005, 17:28 +0000 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:58:40 -0500, Leonard - Gentoo wrote:
>>
>> > Is it possible to send an attachment using the 'mail' command say in a
>> > cronjob? i have a file that i would like sent to me before deleted and
>> > recreated to examine it.. but 'man mail' doesnt exactly suggest that an
>> > attachment is possible
>>
>> I don't believe mail will do this, unless you encode the attachment and
>> incorporate it into the mail yourself. mail-client/nail seems to do what
>> you want, describing itself as 'an enhanced mailx-compatible mail 
>> client'.
>
> Or use just this:
>
> emerge mutt
>
> Than in a script you might use something like this:
>
> echo "Content" | mutt -s "Subject" -a file someone@somewhere.com
>
>>
>>
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