Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is there a way to send an attachment using cron

On 19 Jun 2002, Kanti Jadia wrote:

I want to send a file as attachment every few hours (using cron)

The file is a binary file and merely appending(using mail command) does not suffice.

First, add this header to the message:

Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="some_string_of_text" MIME-Version: 1.0

start your mail with the normal body, and then any attachments you want, encoded with mimeencode:

--some_string_of_text Content-type: text/plain

This is the body of the mail

--some_string_of_text Content-Type: application/octetstream Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

ENCODED ATTACHMENT HERE

--some_string_of_text--

_END_OF_MAIL_

I could send you a program that does this, but I'm feeling too lazy right now.