[ale] Re: Script to send email with attachments

[Chuck Huber]

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ale-request at ale.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:43:59 -0400
> From: Thompson Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>
> Subject: [ale] Script to send email with attachments
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> The task is to send a number (close to 80) jpg pictures to  
> a yahoo mail account by email.

mailx works well for attachments.  Here's a script I use on a remote
system to send a backup log via email attachment:

	# echo "body text" | mailx -s "`hostname` backup succeeded" -a
ftpbackup.log.gz -r "${MAILFROM}" "${MAILTO}"

The -s set the subject, -r sets the mail originator, and -a attaches a
file.  The last argument is the intended recipient.

The mailx home page is at: http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html

Of course it wouldn't hurt to compress each file individually anyway.

Hope this helps,
    - Chuck

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Chuck Huber
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