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mpack mutt mail mime attachment

From: bv@wjv.comREMOVE (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: send attachment to mail
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Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 05:57:42 GMT

In article <20030609024541.GE24354@jpradley.jpr.com>,
Jean-Pierre Radley  <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:
>Robert Kovacic typed (on Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:21:08PM +1000):
>| Ragothaman wrote:
>| >I am using mmdf and sending mails through it. 
>| >
>| >How to attach attachments to mail in command line?  current mail
>| >command syntax does not allows it.

>| >Your help will be highly appreciated.

>| Do a google search for mpack. I believe it will do what you require and 
>| it compiles fine under SCO Openserver 5.0.6.

>What is mpack, and why prefer it to using mutt?

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MPACK(1)                                                              MPACK(1)

NAME
       mpack - pack a file in MIME format

SYNOPSIS
       mpack  [  -s  subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c con-
       tent-type ] file address ...
       mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ]  [  -c  con-
       tent-type ] -o outputfile file
       mpack  [  -s  subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c con-
       tent-type ] -n newsgroups file

DESCRIPTION
       The mpack program encodes the the named file in one or more  MIME  mes-
       sages.   The  resulting  messages are mailed to one or more recipients,
       written to a named file or set of files, or posted to a  set  of  news-
       groups.

OPTIONS
[deletia - wjv]

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That's mpack, but even though I have it here I also prefer mutt.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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