command-line email sending

ixion · 03-05-2003, 11:21 AM

we need to be able to send an attachment to various email addresses through rsh remotely. What would be a command-line mail program/package/etc. that will send an email with an attachment to an email address without any user input.

example: 'rsh <server> <mail program> <attachment> <emailaddress>', and with just one command line the email is off and away. Any chance of this working? I don't mind what config is involved, we just need this to work.

Tinkster · 03-05-2003, 02:12 PM

well, you'll obviously have to do mime-encoding yourself,
but after that use sendmail...

Cheers,
Tink

ixion · 03-05-2003, 02:43 PM

where should I read up on mime-encoding? What is it?!

Tinkster · 03-05-2003, 02:45 PM

man -k mime :P

Cheers,
Tink

rnturn · 03-06-2003, 12:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by ixion
we need to be able to send an attachment to various email addresses through rsh remotely. What would be a command-line mail program/package/etc. that will send an email with an attachment to an email address without any user input.

example: 'rsh <server> <mail program> <attachment> <emailaddress>', and with just one command line the email is off and away. Any chance of this working? I don't mind what config is involved, we just need this to work.

Mutt. It does attachments quite nicely.

Something like:

rsh server /usr/bin/mutt -s "Here's the stuff" -a attachment.file smithj@domain < /dev/null

should work. Dunno about that redirect working correctly with rsh, though. I can test it tomorrow (on a system that allows rsh). Let you know then.

Good luck...

Rick

ixion · 03-06-2003, 12:16 PM

awesome! Thanks for the suggestion!

I'm anxious to see what you come up with

rnturn · 03-06-2003, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ixion
I'm anxious to see what you come up with

Worked like a charm... even the redirection from /dev/null.

Hope that'll help...

Rick

ixion · 03-07-2003, 07:33 AM

Awesome!!! Thank you so much!!!

ixion · 03-07-2003, 07:55 AM

I've been working with it on the Suse 8.0 server we have, but keep getting this error when using '/dev/null':

Error sending message, child exited 65 (Data format error.).
Could not send the message.

Is the Suse system not setup properly??

edit: /dev/null does exist

neioo · 08-01-2008, 07:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rnturn

Mutt. It does attachments quite nicely.

Something like:

rsh server /usr/bin/mutt -s "Here's the stuff" -a attachment.file smithj@domain < /dev/null

should work. Dunno about that redirect working correctly with rsh, though. I can test it tomorrow (on a system that allows rsh). Let you know then.

Good luck...

Rick

Thank you! this is what I was looking for

[Well your solution was posted some years ago, but I just wanted to thank you

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