[ale] Mailing script clues requested

Thompson Freeman tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Tue Jul 11 00:12:13 EDT 2000



This looks good. I'll give it a whirl..

Thanks many times

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Joe Steele wrote:

> You could probably do what you want with metasend, something
> like this:
> 
> 1)  Create a file ("message.txt") with descriptive info for your recipients.
> 
> 2)  Put this file and all your images (I assume jpg's) in a directory.
> 
> 3)  Type the following (one long command wrapped on 3 lines):
> 
> metasend -b -S 5000000 -s "jpg files for you" -t "recipient1, recipient2" \
> -e 7bit -m text/plain -f message.txt \
> `for i in *.jpg; do echo " -n -m image/jpeg -e base64 -f $i";done`
> 
> --Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Thompson Freeman [SMTP:tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]
> Sent:	Monday, July 10, 2000 9:06 AM
> To:	Douglas Knudsen
> Cc:	Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject:	Re: [ale] Mailing script clues requested
> 
> 
> a) With a webpage, I don't learn more about email & linux
> b) I said I'd mail the pictures
> c) Putting together a web page isn't going to be any easier than putting a
> script together (10-15 lines is my guess) which pushes email out, and the
> email solution can be reused.
> 
> Admittedly, I hadn't thought of mailing a zipped file, but since one
> recipient may be on a mac, normal attachments would be vastly better.
> 
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