Thanks Lonnie. This is kinda complicated. Can I assume that with the advent of the regular C libraries rather than the ulibc libraries this will go away in favour of something actual "sendmail" or exim or similar?
And what about previous versions? Thanks Mark On 12/21/2010 06:57 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > Hi Mark, > > The 'mail' command is just a dummy wrapper to /dev/null, not functional. > > The command 'sendmail' is what you want to use. > > Starting in 0.7.4, we added a new command 'mime-pack' that creates a mime > encoded email, ie. > > $ mime-pack > Usage: mime-pack msg_body file_name1 mime_type1 [ file_name2 mime_type2 ... ] > Example: mime-pack "Message body\nline2" "file.pdf" "application/pdf" > > The structure is: echo "header lines..." | mime-pack ... | sendmail -t > > So, to create a mime encoded email containing an attachment, start by > specifying the Subject: and To: header lines, then pipe that to mime-pack to > add the attachment, finally pipe that to sendmail -t . For example, > interactively using the shell... > -- > $ echo "Subject: CDR_records >> To: [email protected]" | \ >> mime-pack "CDR's\nEnjoy..." "/mnt/kd/cdr-csv/Master.csv" "text/plain" | \ >> sendmail -t > -- > > Lonnie > > PS: we should add a tip in the docs for this. > > > On Dec 21, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I have a need to email certain log files and CDR records etc out of the >> AstLinux box. >> >> I've been using this command .... >> >> mail -s "CDR_records" -a /mnt/kd/cdr-csv/Master.csv [email protected] >> >> Which appears to complete but the mail and attachment never arrive. >> >> Voicemail files from the same system _are_ getting to my email. >> >> /var/log/messages shows nothing. >> >> Ideas? >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> >> >> /\/\ark Phillips >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of >> Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even >> within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google >> Apps: >> an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your >> browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew >> _______________________________________________ >> Astlinux-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users >> >> Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to >> [email protected]. >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of > Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even > within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: > an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your > browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. > -- /\/\ark Phillips ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
