Uwe Dippel wrote: > Aside of hacks, I *think* that it might make sense to have a non-hacked > solution. As system administrators, we, at least I, send quite a number > of items with mail (cronjobs). > Therefore, IMHVHO, a tool distributed with *nix or *fix (wrapping around > mail) might be useful? > > Uwe
man mutt nail NAME mutt - The Mutt Mail User Agent SYNOPSIS mutt [-nRyzZ] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-m type] [-f file] mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-a file] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj] [-b addr] [-c addr] addr [...] mutt [-n] [-e cmd] [-F file] -p mutt -v[v] DESCRIPTION Mutt is a small but very powerful text based program for reading electronic mail under unix operating systems, including support color terminals, MIME, and a threaded sorting mode. OPTIONS -a file Attach a file to your message using MIME. ... Name nail - send and receive Internet mail Synopsis nail [-BDdFintv~] [-s subject] [-a attachment ] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] [-r from-addr] [-h hops] [-A account] [-S variable[=value]] to-addr . . . nail [-BDdeHiInNRv~] [-T name] [-A account] [-S variable[=value]] -f [name] nail [-BDdeinNRv~] [-A account] [-S variable[=value]] [-u user] Description Nail is an intelligent mail processing system, which has a command syntax reminiscent of ed(1) with lines replaced by messages. It is based on Berkeley Mail 8.1, is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX nail command, and offers extensions for MIME, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and S/MIME. Nail provides enhanced features for interactive use, such as caching and disconnected operation for IMAP, message threading, scoring, and filtering. It is also usable as a mail batch language, both for sending and receiving mail. The following options are accepted: -A name Executes an account command (see below) for name after the startup files have been read. -a file Attach the given file to the message.