On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 01:01:49PM +0100, Debian User wrote: > Hi, > > trying to cram too many attachments into a single e-mail, I often hit > (receiving) ISP sizelimits. > While 99% sure a mail with a single photo would have gone through. > Grouping them in several mails seems to be man adapting to the machine. > > To automate this chore (next time:-) I looked at package metamail, which > seems close. But it wants to cut up the attachments in (64 kB?) chunks, > and encode them. I prefer to send whole attachments and photographs seem > small enough. The afio vs tar/gzip idea. > > I was thinking of a non-yet-existing script smetasend: > > me@mycomputer:~/photo/holiday$ smetasend john@isp1.com petra@isp2 *.jpg > > And the script would then send the required number of single attachment > mails. Perhaps with a list in each body, so the receiver can complain > about missed ones. > > Does such a script/program already exist? Or is it even part of your > favourite e-mail client? > Hi, just did a prelim of apt-cache search mail attachment. Result: biabam - bash attachment mailer Running: apt-cache show biabam Package: biabam Priority: extra Section: mail Installed-Size: 16 Maintainer: Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 0.9.4-2 Depends: bash (>= 2), sharutils, exim | mail-transport-agent Suggests: file Filename: pool/main/b/biabam/biabam_0.9.4-2_all.deb Size: 3886 MD5sum: a1a641681447a6d4e87b2c0c80343a1a Description: bash attachment mailer A tool that is used for mailing attachments from the commandline. It is similar to using Mutt to send attachments on the commandline, but without the overhead of a complete email client. this may help. -Kev
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