Hey all,

I've been looking around to see if there's a way to schedule a job to run each day that would send a single file as an attachment to the same 2-3 people. The scheduling isn't a problem, but I've never used the built in mail command before, and I'm not having any luck in finding something that works.

Can a job like this be scheduled? The file name will always be the same, as will the recipient addresses. Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Try using "nail". It's almost a dropin replacement for /bin/mail and it has other useful features too (like sending mails out via SMTP directly instead of passing it to your sendmail/postfix/... MTA first).
It's -a option allows you to attach files.
So, you could put a job like:
echo "This is the mail body: "| /path/to/nail -s subject -a /path/to/attached_file mail_destinations

If the attached file is plain text, you could send it as part of the body of the mail (using standard "/bin/mail" or "sendmail"), but that just isn't as nice as having attachments, is it?

Hello Phaethar,

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http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11424.html


http://www.petri.co.il/send_mail_from_script.htm