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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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Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail(3pm)

NAME
Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail - Log messages with sendmail. SYNOPSIS
use Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail; my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail->new( from => 'bar@foo.example', to => 'foo@bar.example', subject => 'your subject', ); $email->log(message => $message); DESCRIPTION
With this output module it's possible to log messages via "sendmail". METHODS
new() Call "new()" to create a new Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail object. The following options are possible: from The sender address (From). to The receipient address (To). cc Carbon Copy (Cc). bcc Blind Carbon Copy (Bcc) subject The subject of the mail. sender This option is identical with "sendmail -f". header With this options it's possible to set your own header. my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail->new( from => 'bar@foo.example', to => 'foo@bar.example', header => 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset= UTF-8', ); Or my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail->new( header => { From => 'bar@foo.example', To => 'foo@bar.example', Subject => 'my subject', 'Content-Type' => text/plain; charset= UTF-8', } ); Or my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail->new( header => [ 'From: bar@foo.example', 'To: foo@bar.example', 'Subject: my subject', 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset= UTF-8', ] ); sendmail The default is set to "/usr/sbin/sendmail". params Parameters for "sendmail". The default is set to "-t". maxsize Set the maximum size of the buffer in bytes. All messages will be buffered and if "maxsize" is exceeded the buffer is flushed and the messages will be send as email. The default is set to 1048576 bytes. Set 0 if you want no buffering and send a mail for each log message. debug Set 1 if you want to enable debugging. The messages can be fetched with $SIG{__WARN__}. log() Call "log()" if you want to log a message as email. $email->log(message => "this message will be mailed"); If you pass the level then its placed into the subject: $email->log(message => "foo", level => "INFO"); $email->log(message => "bar", level => "ERROR"); $email->log(message => "baz", level => "DEBUG"); The lowest level is used: Subject: ERROR ... You can pass the level with "Log::Handler" by setting message_pattern => '%L' flush() Call "flush()" if you want to flush the buffered messages. validate() Validate a configuration. reload() Reload with a new configuration. errstr() This function returns the last error message. DESTROY
"DESTROY" is defined and called "flush()". PREREQUISITES
Carp Params::Validate EXPORTS
No exports. REPORT BUGS
Please report all bugs to <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>. If you send me a mail then add Log::Handler into the subject. AUTHOR
Jonny Schulz <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007-2009 by Jonny Schulz. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2012-11-21 Log::Handler::Output::Sendmail(3pm)
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