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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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COLLECT-REMINDERS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      COLLECT-REMINDERS(1)

NAME

       collect-reminders - collect email reminders to be sent out

SYNOPSIS

       Collect emails reminders set by users for special occasions and move them to the email-reminder spool directory.

DESCRIPTION

       Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email.

       This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job or as the root user.  It collects the reminder files from each user.

OPTIONS

       --help
	     Displays basic usage message.

       --verbose
	     Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.

       --version
	     Displays the version number.

FILES

       ~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf

AUTHOR

       Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>

SEE ALSO

       email-reminder-editor, send-reminders

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier

       Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-28						      COLLECT-REMINDERS(1)
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