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Sending and attaching files on UNIX-like system can be done in a myriad of ways. It really depends on the mail client you are using and how you are using it.

In web-based clients like Netscape browsers, you simple click and add the attachment from the browser GUI.

The same is true for almost all GUI-based email clients.

From the command line, elm(), sendmail() and a host of others allow you to easily send files from the command line.

Most editors, vi(), et. al. allow you to read in the file, but you might want to convert to an ASCII friendly format first. There are many tools to do this. The old ones had names like uuencode() and uudecode(). Now, there are so many it is hard to keep track of them and there are used in all types of MIME setups.

To answer your question specifically, you need to specify the exact email client you are using. WWW-based email clients are popular these days, of course; but for auto-generated mail responders, etc. a command line tool is best.

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www::topica::reply

WWW::Topica::Reply(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   WWW::Topica::Reply(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Topica::Index - parse a single Topic mailing list index

SYNOPSIS

	   my $index = WWW::Topic::Index->new($index_html);

	   foreach my $message_id ($index->message_ids) {
	       # the mail has some information and also provides a link to the reply ...
	       my $mail  = WWW::Topica::Mail->new($topica->fetch_mail($mess_id), $mess_id);
	       # which has other information (like the un-htmled mail and the email address) ...
	       my $reply = WWW::Topica::Reply->new($topica->fetch_reply($mail->id, $mail->eto), $mail->id, $mail->eto);
	   }

	   print "Next offset is ".$index->next."
";
	   print "Previous offset is ".$index->prev."
";

DESCRIPTION

       Used to parse a single reply page from Topica.com's mailing list indexes.

       Reply pages have the body of the email (albeit quoted) and potentially a full email address.

METHODS

   new <page html> <message id> <eto>
       Takes the html of the page, the eto and the message-id and parses the html.

   parse <html>
       Parse the html to get the subject, email address and body of the email.

   id
       Get the message id

   eto
       Get the message eto

   email
       Get the email address parsed out.

   subject
       Get the email subject parsed out.

   body
       Get the email body parsed out.

AUTHOR

       Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2004, Simon Wistow

perl v5.10.1							    2006-01-03						   WWW::Topica::Reply(3pm)

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