[vox-tech] emailing an attachment

Henry House vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:00:27 -0700


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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:53:31AM -0700, Tim Riley wrote:
> Hi LUGOD:
>=20
> Does anyone know how to email an attachment
> from the command line?
>=20
> I would expect it to be:
> mail -s "Here is your graph" --attach-file graph.pdf foo@foo.com

The mail program is rather simple; I do not think that it supports MIME, the
encoding standard that make attachments and non-ASCII messages possible. Try
Mutt instead:

	echo 'This is a test.' | mutt foo@foo.com -s 'Test' -a graph.pdf

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Henry House
The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/p=
gp>
for information.  My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.

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