Hi Aleksander, > > I still use mail(1) for sending one-line emails or in pipes. > > More imporant (for me) is the possibility to send only file(s) as > attachements. > > echo Enclosed | nail -a some.file [email protected] > > Similar functionality has mutt, switch -a. I can't do it via nmh.
whatnow(1) has the `attach' command and friends, but I agree, not as easy. It's perhaps something mhmail(1) should grow. > Also composing message with attachment is not very easy. For me some > form of -a switch in comp and repl is missing. Yes, that would be good too. Perhaps if one does a repl, sits in vi, realises one wants to attach, exits and quits at whatnow, one could then do `comp -use -attach foo' to be sitting back in vi with the old, half-written, draft with an attachment tacked on. > Use of mail client from different subsystem is not convenient, e.g. I > can't use .mh_aliases. Yeah, there's ali(1) but getting its output into a suitable form for parameters to mail... > > It's provided here by the heirloom-mailx package, derived from > > Berkeley Mail 8.1 but brought up to date. A concise list of > > features, http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html > > It depends on package. Sometimes it is installed as nail and -a means > attachchment, sometimes is installed as mailx and because of backward > compatibility -a has different meaning. Then heilroom-mailx looses its > most important feature. Or sometimes, like Ubuntu 10.10 here, it's packaged as heirloom-mailx, alternatives selects it, $ readlink -e /usr/bin/mail /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx and it supports -a. $ man mail | sed '/^ *-a /p; 1,//d; /^$/Q' -a file Attach the given file to the message. $ mail -a /etc/passwd ralph </dev/null No message, no subject; hope that's ok $ Cheers, Ralph. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
