[NTLUG:Discuss] mail or mailx question on attachments

[Chris Cox]

Fred James wrote:
> mail or mailx (mail on Linux seems to be mailx elsewhere)
> attachments
> 
> Does anyone know how to send attachments with mail/mailx?  Attachments 
> such as a PDF file.
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> 

mimencode them... or better, use mailto if installed on
your system instead of mail/mailx.

It will go something like

$ mailto
To: cjcox at acm.org
Subject: My test message
Here is comes!!
~*
Please choose which kind of data you wish to insert:

0: A raw file, possibly binary, of no particular data type.
1: Raw data from a file, with you specifying the content-type by hand.


Enter your choice as a number from 0 to 1: 1

If you want to include non-textual data from a file, enter the file name.
To include the output of a command, enter "|" followed by the command.
If you do not want to include anything, just press ENTER (RETURN).
 > ddns-tools-2.tar.gz  <--- this is my binary file name (Chris)

Enter the MIME Content-type value for the data from file ddns-tools-2.tar.gz
     (type '?' for a list of locally-valid content-types): 
application/x-gzip   <--- specify a mime type or hit ? for a list)

^D

And off it goes!!