Way OT: metasend and attachments
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jun 21 05:04:00 UTC 2006
Mike McMullen wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
>>
>> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=m/metasend
>>
>> Is one place that explains it all....
>>
>>
> Thanks Ed. That's essentially the man page prettied up.
Yes, and I thought that's what you were looking for.... Sorry.
> However being no MIME expert nor even a novice... ;-)
>
> I sent myself some attachments and looked at the message sources
> and cobbled this together that seems to work:
>
> metasend -b -f My.html -m "text/html" -n -f MyWord.doc -m
> "application/msword" -D "MyWord" -s "Test Email" -t
> myname at mydomain.com
>
> So if anyone else is as MIME ignernt as I are, use the above
> substituting the appropriate content type and content description.
>
> Additional files can be added by repeating options -n -f -m -D
> for each file.
>
> Live and learn,
FWIW, metasend is rather old, I think. I've not used it in ages. I
thought it would use the /etc/mime.types file to equate the doc
extension with application/msword such that you need not use the -m
parameter.
Ed
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