Re: command to send mail

[Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net>]

On Fri, 6 May 2005 15:39:21 -0500
"Patrick Kirchner" <obecalp@ameritech.net> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Gaumer [mailto:egaumer@pagecache.org] 
> > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 3:28 PM

> > > Hello,
> > > Do you know any command to send a mail with an attached file?
> > mutt email@ddress -a <file> -s "Subject of email" < email_body
> 
> I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I've always done this:
> 
> mutt -s SubjectHere -a /path/to/attachment someone@somewhere.com <
> /dev/null
> 
> It's nice because the e-mail just goes with the attachment and
> no further prompts are needed, but how does the "email_body" fit into
> this?
> 
> If I try Eric's example I'm told:
> 
> -bash: email_body: No such file or directory

Actually, it's exactly what the error message indicates. The '<' tells
the shell to pull the contents of a file in the current directory named
'email_body' and pass it off to mutt. Mutt then uses it as the text for
the body of the e-mail.

HTH,
Jacob