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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Attach a document in mail using sendmail command Post 302955468 by jgt on Thursday 17th of September 2015 01:25:20 PM
Old 09-17-2015
If you use the sendmail command to send an email, you have to build every line of the email yourself. Send yourself an email with an attachment from your regular mail client, then analyse the contents of your mailbox on the server (prior to retrieving it with either pop or imap.)
You will probably need the base 64 encoding and decoding programs. These are available in a variety of languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
 

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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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