Shell Programming and Scripting

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Message  1:                                            
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii               
Status: R                                                

begin-base64 664 test.tar.gz
H4sICFlkQ0sAA3Rlc3QudGFyAO1YfWwcRxWfXe85l8RO/JGQtDbVqTgQS/h6
556/oEj+TOLGsV3bDW7TZHN3u/YevS/d7RW7ikSTiymuY2EBriKBkCIh1D9S
iapVZamhSnFpqOCPAP9EAUEBFy7ERa0aQv4oWd6bmd2b27hFgIpAuneanfnN
/Oa9t2
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vtR0VDWNXPJxf2SG0P862MyylKUsZSlLWcpSlrKUpSxlKUtZylKWspTlf1D+
AenpsMcAKAAA                                                
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& save myfile
"myfile" [New file] 74/3938
& q
$
$ # check if the email was saved as "myfile" in current directory
$ ls
myfile
$
$ # uudecode myfile now
$ uudecode myfile
$
$ # now check again
$ ls
myfile  test.tar.gz
$
$

(
cat << EOF
TO: joker@batman.com
FROM: riddler@chaos.com
SUBJECT: bananas rochester
CONTENT-TYPE: html/text;

I will crush you.

CONTENT-TYPE: binary;

EOF

uuencode chicken_bomb.gz  not_a_chicken_bomb.gz

) | /usr/lib/sendmail -t

tmpfile=/tmp/mimetmp.$$
basefile=`basename $your_file`

cat > $tmpfile << EOT
From: there@there.com
To: here@here.com
Subject: The subject
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="mime-attachment-boundary"

--mime-attachment-boundary
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

A MIME encoded file is attached called: $basefile
--mime-attachment-boundary
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="$basefile"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="$basefile"
EOT

mimencode $your_file >> $tmpfile
echo --mime-attachment-boundary-- >> $tmpfile
/usr/lib/sendmail -t < $tmpfile
rm $tmpfile

#!/usr/bin/bash
#
#    send_mail_html.sh (send_mail_html/txt_body_plus_attachments) 
#U
#U  Usage:
#U         ##SCRIPT_NAME## "<TO:email1@sample.com,email2@sample.com>" "<Subject:>" "<html_BODY_file>" "<File-1>" "<File-2>" "<File-nth>"
#U
#
Script_name=$(echo $0 | tr '\/' '\n' | tail -1)

########################################
#                                      #
#
Usage_F(){ ###+ START
        echo $1
        echo "Incorrect Syntax, missing arguments.  Exiting ...";
        grep ^#U $0 | sed -e s/^#U// -e s/##SCRIPT_NAME##/$Script_name/;
        exit 1;
} ###+ END Usage_F
#                                      #
########################################

[ $# -lt 4 ] && { Usage_F; }

TO="$1"
SUBJECT="$2"
BODY="$3"
FILE_ATTACHMENT="$4"
BOUNDARY="-"
FROM="email_from@goes-here.us"

#M0 From:##FROM##
#M0 To:##TO##
#M0 Mime-Version:1.0
#M0 Content-Type:Multipart/mixed;boundary=Message-Boundary-##BOUNDARY##
#M0 Subject:##SUBJECT##

#M1 
#M1 --Message-Boundary-##BOUNDARY##
#M1 Content-type:text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
##US-ASCII
#M1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
#M1 Content-Disposition:inline
#M1 Content-Description: Read Me First
#M1 
###_GET_HTML_CONTENT_HERE

#M2 --Message-Boundary-##BOUNDARY##
#M2 Content-type:Application/Octet-Stream;name=##FILE_ATTACHMENT##;type=Binary
#M2 Content-disposition:inline;filename=##FILE_ATTACHMENT##
#M2 Content-transfer-encoding: X-UUencode
#M2 Message-Boundary-##BOUNDARY##
#M2 
###_uuencode ./${FILE_ATTACHMENT} ${FILE_ATTACHMENT} >>mail_out

###_Sample of mailx sending attachment with message in text format (NO HTML)
##M TO="##TO##"
##M SUBJECT="##SUBJECT##"
##M FILE_ATTACHMENT="##FILE_ATTACHMENT##"
##M cat <<EOF | ( cat -; uuencode ./$FILE_ATTACHMENT $FILE_ATTACHMENT; ) | mailx -s "$SUBJECT" "$TO"
##M --Body_here_optional--

TMP=_tmp_mail_out_$(date '+%H%M%S%Y%m%d')
egrep '^#M0|^#M1' $0 | sed -e s/^#M.\ // -e s/##FROM##/$FROM/ -e s/##TO##/$TO/ -e s/##SUBJECT##/$SUBJECT/ -e s/##FILE_ATTACHMENT##/$FILE_ATTACHMENT/g -e s/##BODY##/$BODY/ >$TMP
cat $BODY >>$TMP

shift 3;
while [ ! -z $1 ]; do
        echo $1
        if [ -f $1 ]; then
                grep ^#M2 $0 | sed -e s/^#M.\ // -e s/##FROM##/$FROM/ -e s/##TO##/$TO/ -e s/##SUBJECT##/$SUBJECT/ -e /##FILE_ATTACHMENT##/$1/g -e s/##BODY##/$BODY/ >>$TMP
                uuencode ./$1 $1 >>$TMP
        else
                rm -f $TMP; Usage_F;
        fi
        shift
done

/usr/lib/sendmail "$TO" <$TMP
rm -f $TMP

exit 0