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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users mailx commannd - Mail and Attachment in same mail Post 302169916 by kpearson on Saturday 23rd of February 2008 02:31:59 AM
Old 02-23-2008
You have to include the following lines in the header of the email to have the file go as an attachment:

Code:
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename.ext"
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
... rest of email ...

And you will probably have to not use mailx and use sendmail with a command like:

Code:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -iep < emailfilename

But, for that to work, the file, emailfilename has to have a From: line, a Date: line and a Subject: line. There has to be a blank line after these header lines, the ones above, and the start of the data.

Here's a commandline script I wrote for AIX, but which should work just about anywhere you have access to sh (bash, ksh, sh):

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh

if [ $# -lt 4 ] ; then
 echo "USAGE: send.email UNIXDIR UNIXFILE FROM@atsindustrial.com TO@ADDR.com"
exit 1
fi

UNIXPATH="$1"
UNIXFILE="$2"
FROMADDR="$3"
TOADDR="$4"

if [ -f "$UNIXPATH/$UNIXFILE" ] ; then
 OBJECT="$UNIXPATH/$UNIXFILE"
 cat "$OBJECT" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -f $FROMADDR $TOADDR
else
 echo "$UNIXPATH/$UNIXFILE not valid..."
 exit 2
fi

exit 0

HTH
Last edited by kpearson; 02-23-2008 at 03:37 AM.. Reason: addition of a script to call . . .
 

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reporter-mailx

REPORTER-MAILX(1)						 LIBREPORT MANUAL						 REPORTER-MAILX(1)

NAME

       reporter-mailx - Sends contents of a problem directory via email.

SYNOPSIS

       reporter-mailx [-v] -d DIR [-c CONFFILE]

DESCRIPTION

       The tool reads a problem directory, composes an email message from the directory contents, and uses mailx to send the message to specified
       recipient.

       Properties of email messages can be specified in a configuration file, and via environment variables.

   Configuration file
       Configuration file contains entries in a format "Option = Value".

       The options are:

       Subject
	   The subject of the email message.

       EmailFrom
	   The sender of the email message.

       EmailTo
	   The recipient of the email message.

       SendBinaryData
	   Use yes/true/on/1 to attach all binary files from the problem directory to the email. This can cause the emails to be very large.

   Integration with ABRT events
       reporter-mailx can be used as a reporter, to allow users report problems via email when they decide to do it. This usage is pre-configured
       in /etc/libreport/events.d/mailx_event.conf:

	   EVENT=report_Mailx	   reporter-mailx

       It can also be used to notify administrator automatically when a problem happens. When this is desired, modify the event configuration file
       to run the tool on the post-create event:

	   EVENT=post-create	   reporter-mailx

OPTIONS

       -d DIR
	   Path to problem directory.

       -c CONFFILE
	   Path to configuration file. When used in ABRT event system, the file contains site-wide configuration. Users can change the values via
	   environment variables.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       Environment variables take precedence over values provided in the configuration file.

       Mailx_Subject
	   Subject of the email message.

       Mailx_EmailFrom
	   Sender of the email message.

       Mailx_EmailTo
	   Recipient of the email message. If nor the environment variable nor the corresponding option is defined, the message is send to
	   "root@localhost".

       Mailx_SendBinaryData
	   Use yes/true/on/1 to attach all binary files from the problem directory to the email.

AUTHORS

       o   ABRT team

LIBREPORT 2.1.11						    06/18/2014							 REPORTER-MAILX(1)
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