Mutt has command-line options similar to what you need. We even used mutt to send some files as attachments via e-mail in a cgi script.
Haim. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 6:13 PM > To: Linux-IL Mailing List > Subject: Re: forwarding mails from mailbox to another address.. > > > Another unrelated message: > > How can I attach a file to a message from the command-line? > > I can run: > > mail <file [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But this gets the file in the content of the message. How do > I get a file > as a mime part of a message? > > Note that I would like to be able to attach multiple files, > and not to be > bothered with detecting mime types. Something like: > > send_files --subject="subject" --to=user1,user2 file1 file2 > > Alternatively, something simpler, that creates a multi-part message to > stdout, that I can feed to 'mail: > > make_mime file1 file2 |mail -s "subject" user1 user2 > > Before anybody answers "mimeencode" or anything from the metamail: try > using this and see if you call metamail a working solution. > Its inability > to automatically detect the mime type is irrtating. > > There is also 'sendfiles' that sends the files inside one > compress ('.Z') > tarball. > > Any ideas? > > >From time to time I find myself in need for such a "building > block" and > usually work around this need. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
