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Old 04-24-2012
mailx with attachment

Hi,
When i used below command, i am able to send mail

Code:
mailx -s "Testing mail working or not " babu.sudhakar@ymail.com"

but if i want send attachment with mail,which syntax i need to follow to send a file as attachment.

Last edited by joeyg; 05-01-2012 at 02:41 PM.. Reason: Please use CodeTags around commands & scripts
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Old 05-01-2012
try
Code:
uuencode "attachment file name"|mailx -s "Test mail" xyz@mail.com

It works for .csv files for me..Try and let me know as well Smilie

Last edited by joeyg; 05-01-2012 at 02:42 PM.. Reason: CodeTags
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Old 05-01-2012
This comes up all the time. Searching the site finds all kinds of examples.

Google Search Results for mailx attachment | The UNIX and Linux Forums
# 4  
Old 05-05-2012
I had the same need time ago. I tried with mailx but it didn't work with a lot of files I wanted to send in an automated way. I finally installed mutt:

Look for in in sunfreeware
Si very very powerful
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