For sending attachments you need to encode the attachment file (either uuencode or MIME enocoding). Mime encoding is best as it is understood/decoded by most email clients.
You can go through the following article -- http://oase-shareware.org/shell/articles/mailattachments.html for details about how to send mails using mime encoding. Deepak Singhal >From: Lokesh Bhog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [ilugd]: Sending mail with attachment >Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:41:27 -0800 (PST) > >Dear All, > >I am looking for a shell script or command that can be >used to send mail along with attachment. >I know >mail user1 < filename >but the contents of file are put in mail and not >attached. Cannot find the option with mail command >that would send the file as an attachment. >pine has an option -attach but pine does not end when >i give >pine user1 -attach filename > >Please help >Lokesh > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > ================================================ >To un/subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'un/subscribe' >in subject header >Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > ================================================= > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ================================================ To un/subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'un/subscribe' in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
