Re: sending mal with attachments

Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:25:50 +0000
> Glyn Millington <wistanswick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "bernard" <bernard_reims@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > Hi, I would like to send a mail to a user, with a file as attachment,
>> > and do it in one line, without
>> > going into a creation window or something else. In fact, I need to include
>> > this line
>> > in a batch file .
>> > Do you know how I can manage this ?
>>
>> have a look at
>>
>> man mail
>
> Last time I looked /bin/mail did *not* handle attachments,


Well - I'm sorry for being supercilious! On my system mail is a link to
"nail", which is like mail on steroids :-) I had never noticed that when
I do "man mail" what I get is nail .........

Might be worth looking at nail though - its available in ports and
certainy does handle attachments.

atb











Glyn
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