Hi again, The below responses to my initial question just left me with a few doubts:
- Both commands, mail and mailx, seem to work pretty much the same way, are there any differences? and, will they send the files to the mailing queu (sp?)? - How would I gzip and/or tar the file? Would this process take place before encoding? (OTH tar'ing would be a way of sending several files at once). - And digital signing and/or encrypting? (the above two questions refer to "doing it all in one go", ie. just one line of commands) - should graphics files be treated as binaries, as far as uuencoding/mimencoding is concerned? - and finally, will the mpack command take care of queing the file for mailing or is there a need to add a "| mail/mailx" command to the end of the line? Thanks a lot. ------------- I believe there's a command for e-mailing a file without having to use an MTU, but directly from the command line. mailx, smail,... any ideas? Horacio -------- For text files: mail -s 'your subject' recipient < file.txt For binary files: uuencode file.bin file.bin | mail -s 'your subject' recipient HTH, -Remco --------- This is the old unix way. If you want everyone (including windows users) to be able to decode the mail, you should use mime. This can be done with mpack: mpack -s <subj> -d <description_file> <file> <address> See man mpack, it comes in the mpack .deb package. My question: is there a way to send more than one file in a mail this way? HTH, Eric ---- > there a way to send more than one file in a mail this way? what about mutt? mutt -a <file1> -a <file2> -a <file3> -s <subject> <recipient> < /dev/null works fine :-) Ciao, Hanno -- If you want to send a textfile: $ mailx -s "Subjecttext" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < FILENAME If you want to send binary data you must convert it to text with uuencode (or mmencode): $ uuencode FILENAME < FILENAME | mailx -s "Subjecttext" [EMAIL PROTECTED] greetings Carsten -- Un saludo, Horacio ------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------
