sending mail from command line in FreeBSD 6.1

[Lars Kristiansen]

emm1 skrev:
> The contents of the file is put in the body instead of being delivered
> as an attachment with that command. :)

AFAIK you need to install a mailprogram that can handle attachements.
I have sucessfully used mail/nail for that purpose.

-- 
Regards from Lars

> 
> On 8/24/06, Remy de Ruysscher <rdr at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Use cat file | mailx -s "Subject" receipient -c "another receipient"
>>
>> Regards,
>> Remy
>>
>> On Thu, August 24, 2006 21:22, rob wrote:
>> > Not sure if this will work in FreeBSD, but I use this with CentOS
>> >
>> > Usage:  sendEmail [options]   or   command | sendEmail [options]
>> >
>> >   Required:
>> >     -f <from>            from email address
>> >     -t <to> [<to>]       to email address(es) (space separated list)
>> >
>> >   Common:
>> >     -u <subject>         (this will soon be -s, and -s will become
>> > -h[ost])
>> >     -m <message>         if -m is absent the message is read from STDIN
>> >     -s <server[:port]>   default is localhost:25
>> >
>> >   Optional:
>> >     -a <file> [<file>]   file attachment(s)
>> >     -cc  <to> [<to>]     cc  email address(es)
>> >     -bcc <to> [<to>]     bcc email address(es)
>> >
>> >   Paranormal:
>> >     -l <logfile>         log to the specified file
>> >     -v                   verbosity - use multiple times for greater 
>> effect
>> >     -q                   be quiet (no stdout output)
>> >
>> > http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> > [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of emm1
>> > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 1:55 PM
>> > To: MailScanner discussion
>> > Subject: sending mail from command line in FreeBSD 6.1
>> >
>> > Anyone know how i can send a mail to user from command line in FreeBSD
>> > with an attachment ? I tried sendmail -toi user at domain.com < test.txt
>> > but the test.txt doesn't come as an attachment, the contents of the
>> > file comes in the body of the mail.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
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