How to attach a file using mail command on Linux? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Example using uuencode:

uuencode surfing.jpeg surfing.jpeg | mail sylvia@home.com

and reference article:

http://www.shelldorado.com/articles/mailattachments.html

Note:

you may apt install sharutils to have uuencode command

Answer 2

mail on every version of modern Linux that I've tried can do it. No need for other software:

matiu@matiu-laptop:~$ mail -a doc.jpg someone@somewhere.com
Subject: testing

This is a test
EOT

ctrl+d when you're done typing.

Answer 3

My answer needs base64 in addition to mail, but some uuencode versions can also do base64 with -m, or you can forget about mime and use the plain uuencode output...

   FROM=me@mydomain.com
   TO=someone@mydomain.com
   SUBJECT="Auto emailed"
   MIME="application/x-gzip"  # Adjust this to the proper mime-type of file
   FILE=somefile.tar.gz
   ENCODING=base64  
   boundary="---my-unlikely-text-for-mime-boundary---$$--" 

   (cat <<EOF
    From: $FROM
    To: $REPORT_DEST
    Subject: $SUBJECT
    Date: $(date +"%a, %b %e %Y %T %z")
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="$boundary"
    Content-Disposition: inline

    --$boundary
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Disposition: inline

    This email has attached the file

    --$boundary
    Content-Type: $MIME;name="$FILE"
    Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="$FILE"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: $ENCODING

    EOF
    base64 $FILE
    echo ""
    echo "--$boundary" ) | mail

Answer 4

I use mailutils and the confusing part is that in order to attach a file you need to use the capital A parameter. below is an example.

echo 'here you put the message body' | mail -A syslogs.tar.gz admin@domain.org

If you want to know if your mail command is from mailutils just run "mail -V".

root@your-server:~$ mail -V
mail (GNU Mailutils) 2.99.98
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Answer 5

mpack -a -s"Hey: might this serve as your report?" -m 0 -c application/x-tar-gz survey_results.tar.gz hesco@example.net

mpack and munpack work together with metamail to extend mailx and make it useful with modern email cluttered with html mark up and attachments.

Those four packages taken together will permit you to handle any email you could in a gui mail client.

Answer 6

mailx -a /path/to/file email@address

You might go into interactive mode (it will prompt you with "Subject: " and then a blank line), enter a subject, then enter a body and hit Ctrl+D (EOT) to finish.