http://www.hollenback.net/index.php/SendMimeWithPerl

P.

1. Perl is installed on most systems (although the MIME::Lite module probably isn’t be default so you would need to grab it from cpan).

2. This automatically handles niceties like the content-disposition string and base64 encoding so you don’t have to worry about them.

Here’s a minimal script that takes stdin and sends it as a text attachment:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use MIME::Lite;

# create a new mime message
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
To => $ARGV[0],
Subject => $ARGV[1],
Type => ‘multipart/mixed’
);

# add stdin as a text attachment
$msg->attach(
Type =>’TEXT’,
FH => STDIN
);

# send the message.
$msg->send;

usage:

cat blah | mmail.pl user@example.com “here’s my stuff”

I tested that out and it produces the desired results.

./kj

Mutt is out for me… I don’t run Linux so mutt isn’t a standard utility, and I personally don’t like installing things I don’t really need.

mpack is a good solution, but like mutt it may or may not be on your system already. Plus, you don’t get the joy of really understanding how MIME messages are composed. Its all about the journey of discovery.

uuencode httpd.conf httpd.conf |mailx -s “test” you@yourmail.com

$ echo “herp derp” | mutt -a