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sending file using sendmail

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I have a shell script that uses sendmail function to send email the code is as follows

mailalert(){

sendmail -F Sender-Name -it <<END_MESSAGE

To: [email protected]

Subject: Subject



Message

END_MESSAGE

}

It gets executed whenever I call this function. Now I have a text file which I want to send using sendmail as attachment or as message in the email it sends. How can I do that? I have tried alot of tricks but nothing seems to work. Please Help.

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answered 2 Years ago sweetrifiabl · Accepted Answer

Rather strange but I used a different approach as while using uuencode it started executing but the cursor stuck at begin 644 /path/to/file so I used cat to send my file in the message body.

file=/path/to/file

mailalert(){

sendmail -F Sender-Name -it <<END_MESSAGE

To: [email protected]

Subject: Subject



$(cat $file)

END_MESSAGE

}

The above code worked perfectly but when I saw the message in my web browser it was fine. But when I saw it in Thunderbird it was not shown correctly. It was like kind of encoded.

So, I'm keeping this question open until I dont find the right solution for now.