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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting mailx attachment sending large file Post 302227216 by era on Wednesday 20th of August 2008 10:02:48 PM
Old 08-20-2008
If you want a user interface to MIME then I believe Mutt or Thunderbird might work for you, although I'm not sure if they support splitting large files into multiple messages. Personally I use Gnus which is probably too arcane if you are not an Emacs user already.
 

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thunderbird

thunderbird(1)							   User Commands						    thunderbird(1)

NAME

       thunderbird - Thunderbird for Sun Java Desktop System

SYNOPSIS

       thunderbird [options ... ] [url]

DESCRIPTION

       Thunderbird  is	a free, open-source mail client based on the Mozilla codebase.	It is a robust and easy to use client,similar to competing
       products like other mail client, but with some major advantages such as junk mail classification.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -height value	       Set the height of startup window to value.

       -h or -help	       Display the help message.

       -width value	       Set the width of startup window to value.

       -v or -version	       Display the version message.

       -P profile	       Start with the profile named: profile.

       -ProfileManager	       Start with profile manager.

       -UILocale locale        Start with the UI Locale listed: locale.

       -contentLocale locale   Start with the content Locale listed: locale.

       -jsconsole	       Open the JavaScript console.

       -addressbook	       Open the address book at startup.

       -compose 	       Compose a mail or news message.

       -mail		       Open the mail folder view.

       -options 	       Open the options dialog.

       -news		       Open the news client.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching Thunderbird

       example% thunderbird

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       1	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/thunderbird	       Executable for Thunderbird application

       $HOME/.mozilla/thunderbird      User configuration files for Thunderbird

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWthunderbird		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       For more information about thunderbird, please refer to http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird

       Refer to Help->Mozilla Thunderbird Help for more information.

NOTES

       Updated by Leon Sha, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    8 Jun 2006							    thunderbird(1)
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