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--- email.sh [2006/11/13 16:13] – old revision restored andi
+++ email.sh [2007/06/26 13:29] (current) – 131.211.45.44
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+====== email.sh ======
+This little script sends an email with one or more attachments from the commandline. It uses either Perl's ''MIME:Base64'' or openssl to do the Base64 encoding.
+<code bash>
+#!/bin/sh
+# Sends an email with attachements need perl with MIME::Base64
+#path to sendmail
+SENDMAIL='/usr/sbin/sendmail'
+#Your base64 encoder - must accept STDIN and encode to STDOUT
+#BASE64="eval openssl enc -base64"
+BASE64="perl -e \"use MIME::Base64; print encode_base64(join('',<STDIN>));\""
+while getopts "s:t:f:m:" OPTION
+do
+  case $OPTION in
+    s ) SUBJECT=$OPTARG;;
+    t ) RECEIVER=$OPTARG;;
+    m ) MESSAGE=$OPTARG;;
+    f ) FROM=$OPTARG;;
+  esac
+done
+if [ -z "$SUBJECT" ] || [ -z "$RECEIVER" ]
+then
+  echo "Usage: `basename $0` -s <subject> -t <receiver> [-f <sender>] [-m <text>] <attachements>"
+  exit
+fi
+shift $(($OPTIND - 1))
+BOUNDARY='000XMAIL000'
+DATE=`date -R`
+if [ ! -z "$FROM" ]
+then
+  SENDMAIL="$SENDMAIL -t -f $FROM"
+else
+  SENDMAIL="$SENDMAIL -t"
+fi
+(
+echo -en "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+echo -en "To: <$RECEIVER>\n"
+if [ ! -z "$FROM" ]
+then
+  echo -en "From: <$FROM>\n"
+fi
+echo -en "Subject: $SUBJECT\n"
+echo -en "Date: $DATE\n"
+echo -en "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$BOUNDARY\"\n\n"
+echo -en "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n"
+echo -en "--$BOUNDARY\n"
+echo -en "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed\n"
+echo -en "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n"
+echo -en "$MESSAGE\n\n"
+echo -en "See attached file(s)\n\n"
+for ATTACHMENT in $@
+do
+  FILENAME=`basename $ATTACHMENT`
+  MIMETYPE=`(file -i $ATTACHMENT |awk '{print $2}') 2>/dev/null`
+  echo -en "--$BOUNDARY\n"
+  echo -en "Content-Type: $MIMETYPE; name=\"$FILENAME\"\n"
+  echo -en "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n"
+  echo -en "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"$FILENAME\"\n\n"
+  cat $ATTACHMENT | (eval $BASE64)
+done
+echo -en "--$BOUNDARY--\n"
+) | (eval $SENDMAIL)
+</code>
+or just just mutt ((http://www.mutt.org))
+<code>
+$ mutt -s"Subject" -i /path/to/bodytext -a /path/to/attachment user@doma.in
+</code>