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I am trying to get a log file sent to my e-mail from my Linux RH server.

I run thing command
cat smtest.txt | sendmail -t
smtest.txt:
to : *******@gmail.com
cc : *****@foodconnex.com
from : Your server name
subject : Test mail

TESTING 1 2 3 sendmail!!

How can I send an attachment with this command or somehow cat the file into smtest.txt where the body is.

I am open to other ideas, if there is a better sendmail command to run please let me know!

Thanks ahead of time!

TDUB

Hi,

You can use mutt for the same:
Regards

Above post is absolute way to send attachments from command line. But if you want to know another way, try uuencode command to send emails with attachments.
Take a look at this.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-u...l-attachments/

If you want to know more about these two, take a look at
http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/...tachments.html

I can vote for uuencode, have used that the last couple of years :)

I have a log called ai.log, so how would I attach that? Also what is in attachment.file and message-body.txt?

mutt -s "AI Log" *******@gmail.com -a ????????????

You should attach the logfile after the -a switch.
In message-body.txt you can put some text you want your recipient to read. If don't to, replace it with /dev/null

so found it searching for a simple solution...something like this could help you:

or using uuencode type this in place of openssl, define attachement as $ATTACH:

I run the command I found before
cat smtest.txt | sendmail -t

vi smtest.txt
to : *******@gmail.com
from : Your server name
subject : Test mail

I receive the e-mail,

but when I run
mutt -s "AI Log" ******@gmail.com -a ai.log < body.txt

I do not receive any e-mail

So, check the logs (usually /var/log/maillog) to see what happens

When in doubt, read the man page and learn the options you're given. You should be doing that before running any command off of an internet website or example. It's a simple matter of security/integrity for your own system.

echo cat ai.log | mailx -s "Simple Test" *********@gmail.com

I check my E-mail and the Body is empty (simple sendmail 1)


But in the Header it has the beginning of the file
just as if I were to vi or cat the file out (simple sendmail 2)

vi ai.log
PROGRESS Version 9.1E as of Tue Oct 12 14:40:19 EDT 2004

After-image dates for this after-image file: #etc...

so the cat command is working, it just isn't putting it in the body of the email

but when I do this:
echo "tester" | mailx -s "Simeple Test" ***********@gmail.com

tester - shows up in the body!!

Any body now how I can get whats inside ai.log to show up into the body using this command or get ai.log to be sent as an attachment?

Hi,

You don't use echo and cat together. Just cat the logfile into the mailx command:
Another way is to redirect the logfile into mailx:
Regards

When I just cat

cat ai.log | mailx -s "Simple AI" ************@gmail.com
#I do not get any e-mail

Also when I do the redirect:
mailx -s "Simple AI" **********@gmail.com < ai.log

I do not get an email either, it does come back saying...

you have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root


.

Check the logs (/var/log/maillog) to see what happens
If you don't get any mail, but mail has left your server, chances are that's it's finished into the spam folder

I was able to tail ai.log to my email

(echo From: Blue_Star_1 [********@********]; echo Subject: Blue_Star_1 ; echo To: Foodconnex ; tail /appl/ai/ai.log) | sendmail `cat /appl/ai/recipients-list`

But the problem now is it is coming in as an "unknown sender" which then it keeps dumping into my spam folder. I have the from but it doesn't seem to be looking at that.

Does anyone have an idea with the command above so when my gmail gets the e-mail the from is from somewhere and not unknown sender?