[rescue] Need Mail Program Suggestions

Brian Hechinger wonko at arkham.ws
Sun Feb 3 11:49:16 CST 2002


On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:05:57PM -0500, Andrew_Rotramel at cch-lis.com wrote:
> 
> If I am wrong about mail and/or mailx, please set me straight. Or if the
> tasks is completed just with sendmail, please offer advice. If I am correct
> about mail and/or mailx, what mail program can you folks recommend? I have
> EasySpooler 6.1, which has some sort of mail option, but have not looked
> too closely at it yet.

i do something similar at work.  i wrote a perl script that collects data and
creates an Excel spreadsheet that it automatically mails to a bunch of suits.
what i did was install mutt and used that:

mutt -s "Machine Stats" -a Stats.xls < body.txt

works like a dream.

-brian



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