email.sh
This little script sends an email with one or more attachments from the commandline. It uses either Perl's MIME:Base64
or openssl to do the Base64 encoding.
#!/bin/sh # Sends an email with attachements need perl with MIME::Base64 #path to sendmail SENDMAIL='/usr/sbin/sendmail' #Your base64 encoder - must accept STDIN and encode to STDOUT #BASE64="eval openssl enc -base64" BASE64="perl -e \"use MIME::Base64; print encode_base64(join('',<STDIN>));\"" while getopts "s:t:f:m:" OPTION do case $OPTION in s ) SUBJECT=$OPTARG;; t ) RECEIVER=$OPTARG;; m ) MESSAGE=$OPTARG;; f ) FROM=$OPTARG;; esac done if [ -z "$SUBJECT" ] || [ -z "$RECEIVER" ] then echo "Usage: `basename $0` -s <subject> -t <receiver> [-f <sender>] [-m <text>] <attachements>" exit fi shift $(($OPTIND - 1)) BOUNDARY='000XMAIL000' DATE=`date -R` if [ ! -z "$FROM" ] then SENDMAIL="$SENDMAIL -t -f $FROM" else SENDMAIL="$SENDMAIL -t" fi ( echo -en "MIME-Version: 1.0\n" echo -en "To: <$RECEIVER>\n" if [ ! -z "$FROM" ] then echo -en "From: <$FROM>\n" fi echo -en "Subject: $SUBJECT\n" echo -en "Date: $DATE\n" echo -en "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"$BOUNDARY\"\n\n" echo -en "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n" echo -en "--$BOUNDARY\n" echo -en "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed\n" echo -en "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n\n" echo -en "$MESSAGE\n\n" echo -en "See attached file(s)\n\n" for ATTACHMENT in $@ do FILENAME=`basename $ATTACHMENT` MIMETYPE=`(file -i $ATTACHMENT |awk '{print $2}') 2>/dev/null` echo -en "--$BOUNDARY\n" echo -en "Content-Type: $MIMETYPE; name=\"$FILENAME\"\n" echo -en "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n" echo -en "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"$FILENAME\"\n\n" cat $ATTACHMENT | (eval $BASE64) done echo -en "--$BOUNDARY--\n" ) | (eval $SENDMAIL)
or just just mutt 1)
$ mutt -s"Subject" -i /path/to/bodytext -a /path/to/attachment user@doma.in