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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users create email w/ ASCII attachment via command-line Post 18976 by jwperry on Thursday 4th of April 2002 03:56:19 PM
Old 04-04-2002
Question create email w/ ASCII attachment via command-line

All,

I need to email an ASCII data file to a business partner, and intended on creating a Korn Shell script to create an email message (minimal text), and attach the ASCII data file to the email.

It seems this is not as easy as I had thought it might be. sendmail does not support attachments, and the Unix Admins said we did not have a utility that can handle sending attachments (via command-line) in our Solaris 8 world (OS 5.8).

The Unix Admins indicated they might be able to install something from a source such as GNU, as long as it's a trusted source.

Any (free/robust) utilities come to mind that can handle the command-line email attachment??

(Note, I am experiemtning w/ redirecting the ASCII data as the 'body' of the email, but, our company disclaimer is appended to all out-going emails...not sure if our partner will accept this - or if they'd even accept the data as the body of the email)

TIA
 

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rt-email-dashboards(8)					     Request Tracker Reference					    rt-email-dashboards(8)

NAME
rt-email-dashboards - Send email dashboards SYNOPSIS
rt-email-dashboards [options] DESCRIPTION
This tool will send users email based on how they have subscribed to dashboards. A dashboard is a set of saved searches, the subscription controls how often that dashboard is sent and how it's displayed. Each subscription has an hour, and possibly day of week or day of month. These are taken to be in the user's timezone if available, UTC otherwise. SETUP
You'll need to have cron run this script every hour. Here's an example crontab entry to do this. 0 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /opt/rt4/local/sbin/rt-email-dashboards This will run the script every hour on the hour. This may need some further tweaking to be run as the correct user. OPTIONS
This tool supports a few options. Most are for debugging. -h --help Display this documentation --dryrun Figure out which dashboards would be sent, but don't actually generate or email any of them --time SECONDS Instead of using the current time to figure out which dashboards should be sent, use SECONDS (usually since midnight Jan 1st, 1970, so 1192216018 would be Oct 12 19:06:58 GMT 2007). --epoch SECONDS Back-compat for --time SECONDS. --all Ignore subscription frequency when considering each dashboard (should only be used with --dryrun for testing and debugging) perl v5.14.2 2013-05-22 rt-email-dashboards(8)
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