[SunHELP] Attachments with Sendmail

gonufer sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Aug 1 11:23:33 CDT 2001


Shain Miley wrote:
> I need to send a file as an attachment rather than having the file sent
> as the body of the message.  Is sendmail capable of doing this or do I
> need to look elsewhere?

Sendmail is not a Mail User Agent, it's a Mail Transport Agent.  It's
not responsible for things like attachments, only for making sure mail
gets from point A to point B.

You need to "compose" the message before you hand it off to an MTA
such as sendmail.  Here's a short page on some ways to compose your 
message with attachments:

	http://www3.shore.net/~kylet/unix-att.html

-greg


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