Send a file as a mail attachment using mail command.

The simplest way to send a file as a mail attachment is shown by the following examples:

# uuencode snoopy1.jpeg snoopy1.jpeg | mail user@dump.4network.org

If user uses a current mail reader like Mozilla, Netscape Messenger or Microsoft Exchange, she/he will see a mail containing just one file attachment: the file “snoopy1.jpeg”.

This way we can include text, too:

# (cat mailtext; uuencode snoopy1.jpeg snoopy1.jpeg) | mail user@dump.4network.org

The file called “snoopy1.jpeg” again appears twice on the uuencode command line: the first time to specify the input file name, the second time for the remote extraction file name.

or

echo -e "text in line1 ntext in line2"| mail -s "Subject of an e-mail" -r "User1<user1@dump.4network.org>" -a "/tmp/abc.zip" name@domian.com

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