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Re: How to mail a file?



>>>>> In <[🔎] 19990114132848.A469@vlc.servicom.es> 
>>>>>	homega@vlc.servicom.es wrote:

> I believe there's a command for e-mailing a file without having to use an
> MTU, but directly from the command line.  mailx, smail,... any ideas?

If you want to send a textfile:

$ mailx -s "Subjecttext" your@email.address < FILENAME

If you want to send binary data you must convert it to text with uuencode
(or mmencode):

$ uuencode FILENAME < FILENAME | mailx -s "Subjecttext" your@email.address

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