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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Attaching file and sending text in body using sendmail command!! Post 302178100 by era on Monday 24th of March 2008 04:01:12 PM
Old 03-24-2008
sendmail by itself is a very simple mail submission agent. You need to give it a properly formatted mail message, and it will accept it into the queue, end of story.

Do you want to understand MIME, or just get this job done? In the latter case, there's a bunch of old MIME tools for this called metamail, but they are not very easy to use. Other people here have reported good success with using mutt from the command line for this.

The following is just a quick demonstration of how to do it directly on the hot metal. Don't do this at home.

Code:
cat <<'HERE'
Subject: mail message
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: multipart/related; boundary=foooooobar

--foooooobar

Body of message goes here

--foooooobar
Content-type: image/png; filename="icon.png"
Content-transfer-encoding: base64

HERE

mimencode file1

cat <<'HERE'

--foooooobar
Content-type: application/octet-stream; filename="worm.exe"
Content-transfer-encoding: base64

HERE

mimencode file2

echo
echo '--foooooobar--'

 

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mailq(1)						      General Commands Manual							  mailq(1)

NAME
mailq - Displays the contents of the mail queue SYNOPSIS
mailq [-v] DESCRIPTION
The mailq command displays a list of messages in the mail queue. The mailq command is the same as the sendmail command with the -bp option; see sendmail for more information. EXAMPLES
The mailq command lists the mail queue as shown in the following example: Mail Queue (1 request) --QID--- -Size- ---Q- Time------- --Sender/Recipient--- AA002508 3 Thu Dec 17 10:01 root The mailq -v command lists the mail queue as shown in the following example: Mail Queue (1 request) --QID--- -Size- -Priority- ---Q-Time---- -Sender/Recipient- AA002508 3 1005 Dec 17 10:01 root (Output might be formatted differently on your system.) The fields have the following meaning: Contains the message queue ID of the message. Contains the number of bytes in the body of the message (header information not included). Contains the priority of the message. Contains the date that the message entered the queue. Contains the user ID of the sender (first), and then the user ID of the receiver of the message. In this example, a message also indicates the status of the message. FILES
Contains the log file and temporary files associated with the messages in the mail queue. SEE ALSO
Commands: sendmail(8) mailq(1)
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