Wow, thanks. The MIME::Tools module is fantastic. I'd highly recommend it
to anyone in a similar situation- for sending or receiving attachment-laden
email w/perl + qmail.
todd
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Kirill Miazine wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:16:44PM -0500, Todd Goldenbaum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using perl to construct and send qmail messages, and I've found it very
> > easy with qmail-inject. But I'm confused about attachments... I found this
> > suggestion from the archives of this list:
>
> Did you try MIME::Tools? Check your nearest CPAN mirror for more info. Or
> run following:
>
> perl -MCPAN -e 'readme("MIME::Tools")'
>
> >
> > % cat {filename} | uuencode {filename} | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > however, when the mail comes in, it looks something like this:
> >
> > Date: 24 Mar 2001 02:06:32 -0000
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: recipient list not shown: ;
> >
> > begin 664 ngc2903_hst_big.jpg
> > M_]C_X``02D9)1@`!`@``9`!D``#_[``11'5C:WD``0`$````4```_^X`#D%D
> > M;V)E`&3``````?_;`(0``@("`@("`@("`@,"`@(#!`,"`@,$!00$!`0$!08%
> > M!04%!04&!@<'"`<'!@D)"@H)"0P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`$#`P,%!`4)!@8)
> > M#0L)"PT/#@X.#@\/#`P,#`P/#PP,#`P,#`\,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,#`P,
> > M#`P,#`P,#`P,_\``$0@%W@7&`P$1``(1`0,1`?_$`:(````'`0$!`0$`````
> > M`````
> >
> > I'm not very familiar with the standard email spec, but it seems like there
> > might be a way to just include a line in the email header that indicates
> > a file in the local filesystem to attach, maybe assumiing it's been uuencoded?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Todd
> >
> --
> Kirill
>
