Sending Mail from Sh

2004-04-04 Other

Ever wanted to send email from the shell, but also to give it a Mime type so that the mail reader doesn’t just put your attachment straight into the body of the message ( envoking mail myemail@mydomain.com < myattachment , will include the attachment but won’t split the message up). Well this handy little example will let you from an easy to modify Perl script: http://www.akadia.com/services/email_attachments_using_perl.html

You will have install the MIME-lite bits and pieces: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/MIME/MIME-Lite-2.117.tar.gz but thats no big deal really. I now have backup .tar.gz and more being emailed from my servers nightly as a cron job.