ot: mail flag for attachment in unix

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Dennis Malen propounded (on Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:11:16PM -0400):
>| I would then have to go to a product like LM.
>
>Why not get mutt, which knows in its bones how to create and handle
>attachments?

The main thing I don't like about using mutt for things like this
is that it tends to leave junk around (e.g. $HOME/.mail/sent
files), and can fail if the $HOME/.mail directory does not exist.

There are other cases where I use python scripts to deliver mail
directly to an MX server with SMTP, notably support reports that
may be that the local mail server is not able to send mail.  The
routines we use for system monitoring of our client's systems
generally attempt to deliver directly to our mail servers,
falling back to a pipe to the local sendmail if they cannot
connect to one of our servers.

Bill
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