I know how to send an email from command line (script)
echo "body" | mail -s "subject" <a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="80edf9c0e5ede1e9ecaee3efed">[email protected]</a>
Is it possible to send attachments from commandline (script) as well?
I am using heirloom-mailx on Debian Wheezy.
Answers:
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Method 1
The simple way: to use uuencode (part of sharutils package). Any formatting or body text are unavailable. Just a email with attachement and custom subject.
uuencode /path/to/file file_name.ext | mail -s subject <a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="284551684d45494144064b4745">[email protected]</a>
The complex way: to use sendmail and html formatting:
v_mailpart="$(uuidgen)/$(hostname)" echo "To: <a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2f42566f4a424e4643014c4042">[email protected]</a> Subject: subject Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="$v_mailpart" MIME-Version: 1.0 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --$v_mailpart Content-Type: text/html Content-Disposition: inline <html><body>Message text itself.</body></html> --$v_mailpart Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name=file_name.ext Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file_name.ext `base64 /path/to/file` --$v_mailpart--" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
in case with several attachments last part may be repeated.
Method 2
With mutt instead of mail you would simply call
echo "body" | mutt -s "subject" -a attachment0 attachment1 [...] -- <a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f99480b99c94989095d79a9694">[email protected]</a>
Here, attachmentN are the list of files that you want to attach.
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