ot: mail flag for attachment in unix

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009, Dennis Malen wrote:
>mail -s "subject" senderemailaddress <locationoffile
>
>The foregoing works in AIX UNIX by inserting the locationoffile in the body 
>of the email.
>
>How would I add an attachment to the email? I have googled this and there 
>does not seem to be any flag or reference on how to add an attachment.

Mutt uses the -a option to attach files to messages.  This works
OK, but there can be issues such as failing of ~/.mail isn't
available or ~/.mail/sent is not writeable.  This would attach
two files to the message and have text from locationoffile.

mutt -a file1 -a files -s "subject" senderemailaddress <locationoffile

I finally bit the bullet though and figured out how to properly
build multi-part MIME messages with python when writing a script
to generate and e-mail OpenVPN files.  It's really pretty simple.

Bill
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