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false | 1 | article | 2010-08-31T10:16:04+02:00 | send mail from command line with attached file | Yann Esposito | yannesposito.com |
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I had to send a mail using only command line.
I was surprised it isn't straightforward at all.
I didn't had pine
nor mutt
or anything like that.
Just mail
and mailx
.
What Internet say (via google) is
uuencode fic.jpg fic.jpg | mail -s 'Subject'
I tried it.
And it works almost each times.
But for my file, it didn't worked.
I compressed it to .gz
, .bz2
and .zip
.
Using .bz2
format it worked nicely, but not with other formats.
Instead of having an attached file I saw this in my email.
begin 664 fic.jpg M(R$O=7-R+V)I;B]E;G8@>G-H"GALtelnet. The command to use is:sendmail -t -oi < mailcontent.txt
Of course you need to create the
mailcontent.txt
file. It should contains:From: from@mail.com To: to@mail.com Subject: View the attached file Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-" This is a MIME encoded message. Decode it with "Decoder" or any other MIME reading software. Decoder is available at . --- Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="fic.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline; filename="fic.jpg" H4sICB6Ke0wAA2Rjcl93aXRob3V0X2tleXdvcmQuY3N2ANSdW5ubOJPH7/e7 7Brw+dmrTk8yk7yTSTaZeWd2b/TIIGy6MRAE7ng+/VaJgwF3g522SsxN2+3T /4eOJamqmARP+yibvI8ykUYim+x5EE2euBfIyd3byZ+fvvzr7svbu8ndTx/f ...And to obtain the "encoded" file in base64 I used:
uuencode -m fic.jpg fic.jpg
That is all. Sometimes technology is so easy to use. If I need it another time I should consider to make a shell script to automatize this.