[rescue] Need Mail Program Suggestions

Steve Sandau ssandau at bath.tmac.com
Sun Feb 3 12:48:22 CST 2002


A while ago I hacked together a shell script that would do pretty much
that. We had reports that were generated by an Informix database, and
rather than set up remote printers through various firewalls, we decided
to have the report emailed.

The script takes arguments for the attachment name, the subject, the
recipient, and the path to the file to attach. It uuencodes the file (I
think you could use mpack instead of uuencode) and sends it.

If you'd like the script, I'll mail it to you.

Andrew_Rotramel at cch-lis.com wrote:
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> Next week I have to set up an application that involves sending e-mail
> messages to customers. Each message must have an attachment. I read the man
> page and got sendmail configured to send mail to the outside world.
> However, reading the man pages for mail and mailx, I have concluded that
> they don't allow me to include attachments with messages.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Andrew Rotramel
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Steve Sandau
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