Another easy way to attach files is to use the whatnow "attach" command included in modern nmh. It hides the mhbuild commands. See the send and whatnow man pages.
"Modern" here means since August 2002, I think, though support for the attachformat option shown below was added in February 2006. To use: 0) Add "-attach X-MH-Attachment" to the send: and whatnow: lines in your .mh_profile. Mine look like: send: -forward -attach X-MH-Attachment -attachformat 1 whatnow: -attach X-MH-Attachment And, add some mhshow-suffix entries for the content types that you send, if you don't already have them. I use these: #### The mhshow-suffix entries are necessary to get the: #### proper application type with -attach X-MH-Attachment: mhshow-suffix-text/plain: .txt mhshow-suffix-application/msword: .doc mhshow-suffix-application/pdf: .pdf mhshow-suffix-application/PostScript: .ps mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xls mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint: .ppt 1) At the whatnow prompt, enter: attach /tmp/foobar.zip Then send as usual. You won't get a chance to preview the mime output, but I've gained so much confidence with it that I no longer feel the need to. Some tips: * attach allows shell wild cards. * ls can be used at the whatnow prompt to look for your files. * al[ist] can be used at the whatnow prompt to show what you've attached. det[ach] can be used to delete attachments. And if you really want, you can edit the message to change attachments, though I reserve that for reordering. * Cc: or Bcc: yourself if you want to see what was sent. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
