[vox-tech] emailing an attachment
Tim Riley
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:49:29 -0700
Henry House wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:53:31AM -0700, Tim Riley wrote:
> > Hi LUGOD:
> >
> > Does anyone know how to email an attachment
> > from the command line?
> >
> > 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
>
Gotit. Thanks!
>
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> Henry House
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