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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Sendmail - Attachments & Subjects Post 303025274 by dakelly on Tuesday 30th of October 2018 05:15:52 AM
Old 10-30-2018
Sendmail - Attachments & Subjects
Hi All,

Not been around in a while. However I have been all over tinternet (google) for days looking for a solution.

Where I work has decided to use Sendmail on our Linux and Unix estate for sending emails via scripts. So I am hoping to eventually get a working solution for Sendmail and not any other program like mailx or mut.

I have installed sharutils to get uuencode working.

Sends subject
Code:
echo "Subject: Test from HOST" | sendmail recipient@domain.com

Code:
( echo "Subject: Test from HOST" ) | sendmail recipient@domain.com

Sends Subject & Body
Code:
MSG=/tmp/temp.txt
echo "This is in the body of the email" >> $MSG
( echo "Subject: Test from HOST"; cat $MSG ) | sendmail recipient@domain.com

Sends Attachments only
Code:
uuencode test.txt test.txt | sendmail recipient@domain.com


However I cannot get Attachments & Subject - which to be honest, does make sense to have.

Both send with Subject only
Code:
uuencode test.txt test.txt | ( echo "Subject: Test from HOST" ) | sendmail recipient@domain.com

Code:
uuencode test.txt test.txt | echo "Subject: Test from HOST" | sendmail recipient@domain.com


I have also tried the following to get an attachment, Subject & Body, but again this does not work, it sends a .dat file which when opened is just the contents withing the code (below) and nothing else
Code:
( echo "to: recipient@domain.com" 
echo "Subject: Test from HOST"
echo "mime-version: 1.0"
echo "content-type: multiple/related; boundary=messageBoundary"
echo ""
echo "--messageBoundary"
echo "contrent-type: text/plain"
echo ""
echo "Please find the document atttached." 
echo ""
echo "--messageBoundary" 
echo "content-type: text; name=test.txt" 
echo "content-transfer-encoding: base64"
echo ""
openssl base64 < /tmp/test.txt ) | sendmail -t -i

Can anyone help in getting attachments & subjects working with Sendmail or even better, Subject, Body & Attachments
 

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