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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users email file as attachment... Post 302597233 by abdul.irfan2 on Thursday 9th of February 2012 05:04:13 PM
Old 02-09-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jgt
You are making the entire body of the email, the attachment. If you edit the received email and input the body to uudecode, you will get your original text.
Search "email attachment" in this forum, there are lots of examples.
Thanks i figured it out...


Code:
uuencode test.txt test.txt |mailx -m -r touser@domain -s "attach testing" fromuser@domain

but now it messes up by text.txt file...the output has some squares and stuff like that.... any idea how to get rid of that ??

Last edited by methyl; 02-10-2012 at 11:17 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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SendEmail(1)							   User Commands						      SendEmail(1)

NAME
SendEmail - Lightweight, command line SMTP email client SYNOPSIS
SendEmail -f ADDRESS [options] OPTIONS
-f ADDRESS from (sender) email address * At least one recipient required via -t, -cc, or -bcc * Message body required via -m, STDIN, or -o message-file=FILE Common: -t ADDRESS [ADDR ...] to email address(es) -u SUBJECT message subject -m MESSAGE message body -s SERVER[:PORT] smtp mail relay, default is localhost:25 Optional: -a FILE [FILE ...] file attachment(s) -cc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] cc email address(es) -bcc ADDRESS [ADDR ...] bcc email address(es) [32;1mParanormal:[m -xu USERNAME authentication user (for SMTP authentication) -xp PASSWORD authentication password (for SMTP authentication) -l LOGFILE log to the specified file -v verbosity, use multiple times for greater effect -q be quiet (no stdout output) -o NAME=VALUE see extended help topic "misc" for details Help: --help TOPIC The following extended help topics are available: addressing explain addressing and related options message explain message body input and related options misc explain -xu, -xp, and others networking explain -s, etc output explain logging and other output options REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <http://bugs.debian.org/sendemail> AUTHOR
sendemail was written by Brandon Zehm <caspian@dotconf.net> . This manual page was written by Brandon Zehm and improved by Alejandro Garrido Mota <garridomota@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). sendEmail September 2010 SendEmail(1)
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