Re: Looking for a program to email a file as an attachment from command line

[Dirk H Bartley <bartleyd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The file is a text file.

cat file | sendmail toname@todomain

works fine, but only if the recipient is using an email client with a
default font that keeps all the characters lined up by having the same
width.  (MS strikes again)  If I rename and send the file as a *.doc, the
user opens it in word and word understands how to open it.  But express
mangles it into an unstructured mess.  So if I could send it as an
attachment instead of part of the body of the text, all would be fine.

uuenview looks like it should do the job, which Adam responded with.  Now if
I can get it compiled on or for SCO, I will be fine.

  uuenview [-v] [-a] [-u|-x|-b] [-lines] [-o] [-od path]
               [-m email] [-p newsgroup] [-s subject]
               [file(s)]

Dirk

Steve Scherbinski wrote:
> 
> What kind of file do you want to send?  If the file is is just text, I
> believe the commands would pretty much work as you've written them.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Dirk H Bartley wrote:
> >
> > I would like a command that would email a file as an attachment from the
> > command line.  (so that I can run it from cron)
> >
> > Sendmail works and you can use the -f command line option to determine
> > the from address.
> >
> > mail has a -s command line option to determine the subject.  What
> > program has a command line option to send the file as an attachment.  It
> > could be it's own command like mail or it could pipe into sendmail.
> >
> > Ideally it would look like
> >
> > newcommand -a file -s subject | sendmail -f fromname@fromdomain
> > toname@todomain
> >
> > or
> >
> > newcommand -a file -s subject | sendmail toname@todomain
> >
> > Does such a command exist.
> >
> > Dirk