How to send windows attachment using senmail

[ronnie gauthier]

He is asking about perl. With perl you open a filehandle to a sendmail pipe
and basically just print to the filehandle. You send your own headers and do
your own encoding, and that is where people get a bit confused with perl and
sendmail because you have to do what the email client would be doing, sendmail
does exactly what its name says, sends mail.
IIRC, mail is a little command line client thingy that uses your MTA. But I
could be wrong. I know that "mail" gives me my mail and "d root" gets rid of
crons messages :-).

On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
-
BradDe Vries <devriesbj at yahoo.com> wrote the following
Re: Re: How to send windows attachment using senmail 

>--- Swapana Ghosh <swapana_ghosh at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> My question is as follows:
>>         2. How can i send an attachment through 
>>            the sendmail.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> -Swapna
>
>I don't typically use sendmail as my e-mail client,
>although I think it's possible.  I use the "mail"
>command for this type of work.  Here's an example
>shell script which will attach a file.
>
>Brad.
>--------------
>#!/bin/sh
>
># initialize
>FILE=$1
>TMPFILE=/tmp/email.$$
>
># validate
>if [ ! -f $FILE ]; then
>  echo "File not found: $FILE"
>  exit 1
>fi
>
># prepare message
>cat << EOF > $TMPFILE
>This is the body of the message...
>
>The attachment is at the end.
>EOF
>
># encode and attach the file
>BASENAME=`basename $FILE`
>uuencode $FILE $BASENAME >> $TMPFILE
>
># send the message
>mail -s "Subject line here" someone at somewhere.com <
>$TMPFILE
>
># clean up
>rm -f $TMPFILE
>--------------
>
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